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title: That's just two big clouds bumping their heads, love," says Grandad,… — Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts · tree and pragmatics
description: That's just two big clouds bumping their heads, love," says Grandad, the way his own grandad told him. Who acts: That, two big clouds, Grandad, own grandad. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 0

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That's just two big clouds bumping their heads, love," says Grandad, the way his own grandad told him.

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**Who acts:** That, two big clouds, Grandad, own grandad · **What happens:** be, bump, say, tell · **To what, where:** two big clouds, heads, way, him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» 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 (That, two big clouds, Grandad, own grandad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:0
# text = That's just two big clouds bumping their heads, love," says Grandad, the way his own grandad told him.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.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	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis
7	bumping	bump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 a** | present | That | two big clouds |  |  |  | love *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bump** | gerund | two big clouds *not said here* | clouds's heads |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Grandad's own grandad | the way *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:0`.

**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.

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