--- title: A company is a business, and its founder is the person who started i… — The school fair, famous companies and being your… · tree and pragmatics description: A company is a business, and its founder is the person who started it; many famous companies, such as Apple, started small, and Apple was reported to have over 100,000 workers. Who acts: company, founder, person. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, founder, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.lesson:9 # text = A company is a business, and its founder is the person who started it; many famous companies, such as Apple, started small, and Apple was reported to have over 100,000 workers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 founder founder NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 23 case _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 Apple Apple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 25 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 Apple Apple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 over over ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a company | a business and the person and many famous companies such Apple | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | p's founder | the person | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **start** | past | the person | p | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **start** | past | a company *not said here* | | | | | small *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **report** | past · passive | | Apple | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have over** | to-infinitive | | 100,000 workers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:money:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.lesson:9`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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