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title: We love a story with one lone hero and one magic moment: an apple bo… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics
description: We love a story with one lone hero and one magic moment: an apple bonks Newton on the head, Edison alone lights up the world, a kite gets hit by lightning. Who acts: We, apple, Edison, lightning. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths course of Mova's primary sch
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# Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 2

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We love a story with one lone hero and one magic moment: an apple bonks Newton on the head, Edison alone lights up the world, a kite gets hit by lightning.

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**Who acts:** We, apple, Edison, lightning · **What happens:** love, bonk, light up, hit · **To what, where:** story, Newton, head, world, kite

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» 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 (We, apple, Edison, lightning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:2
# text = We love a story with one lone hero and one magic moment: an apple bonks Newton on the head, Edison alone lights up the world, a kite gets hit by lightning.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nummod
11	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bonks	bonk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	Newton	Newton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Edison	Edison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod
24	lights	light	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:agent	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **love** | present | We | a story |  |  |  | with one lone hero and one magic moment | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bonk** | present | a apple | Newton |  | the head |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent newton=Patient on head=Location |
| 3 | **light up** | present | Edison | the world |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Product |
| 4 | **hit** | present · passive | lightning | a kite |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |

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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:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:2`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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