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title: Many arguments are really about words. — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics
description: Many arguments are really about words. Who acts: Many arguments. A sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 5

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Many arguments are really about words.

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**Who acts:** Many arguments · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many arguments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:5
# text = Many arguments are really about words.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Many arguments |  |  |  |  | about words | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:5`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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