--- title: When a friend clings to a story, a surprising fact or a quick look a… — Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts · tree and pragmatics description: When a friend clings to a story, a surprising fact or a quick look at a globe works better than "you're wrong": "Did you know we're nearer the Sun in January?" Who acts: friend, surprising fact, you, we. 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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 (friend, surprising fact, you, we), 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:7 # text = When a friend clings to a story, a surprising fact or a quick look at a globe works better than "you're wrong": "Did you know we're nearer the Sun in January?" # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 clings cling VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 surprising surprising ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 globe globe NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 21 than than SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 ccomp _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: offer - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cling** | present | a friend | | | | | to a story | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to story=Co-Theme | | 2 | **work** | present | a surprising fact or a quick look at a globe | | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | january | near *property* | tree rules | 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:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:7`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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