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title: Even a documentary can be staged, so it is worth asking how a scene… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Even a documentary can be staged, so it is worth asking how a scene was filmed. Who acts: asking. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 17

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Even a documentary can be staged, so it is worth asking how a scene was filmed.

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**Who acts:** asking · **What happens:** stage, be, ask, film · **To what, where:** documentary, scene · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» 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 (asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:17
# text = Even a documentary can be staged, so it is worth asking how a scene was filmed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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 ×2
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	documentary	documentary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	staged	stage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	filmed	film	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **stage** | can · passive |  | a documentary |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | asking |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **film** | past · passive |  | a scene |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:17`.

**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 ×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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