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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 (headline, council, headlines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:9 # text = A headline asking a scary question, like "Will the council ban football?", is not a fact, and headlines often leave out the "maybe" and "only" in the story underneath. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 headline headline NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 3 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 2 dep _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 10 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:aux 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 12 council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 13 ban ban NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 24 headlines headline NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 30 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 30 conj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 39 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a headline *not said here* | a scary question | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 2 | **ban** *in a quote* | future | the council | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | a headline | a fact | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **leave out** | present | headlines | | | the story | | often *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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