--- title: The best move is to add to what someone knows instead of knocking it… — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole… · tree and pragmatics description: The best move is to add to what someone knows instead of knocking it down: "You're right about grown-ups, Grandad, and babies actually have more bones!" Who acts: best move, someone, You, babies. 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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 (best move, someone, You, babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:3 # text = The best move is to add to what someone knows instead of knocking it down: "You're right about grown-ups, Grandad, and babies actually have more bones!" # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 obl _ _ 9 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ _ 10 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 knocking knock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 vocative _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 actually actually ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | the best move | | | | | add *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | present | someone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **knock down** | gerund | the best move *not said here* | move | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | about grown ups; Grandad *vocative*; right *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | babies | more bones | | | | actually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:3`. **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): no change. **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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