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title: Autism is a difference in how the brain works; autistic people may f… — Left out: the party, the new school, the third w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Autism is a difference in how the brain works; autistic people may find unwritten playground rules confusing, and a patient buddy can help. Who acts: Autism, brain, autistic people, patient buddy. A sentence of the lesson «Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel» of the reflection cours
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# Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel, sentence 17

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Autism is a difference in how the brain works; autistic people may find unwritten playground rules confusing, and a patient buddy can help.

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**Who acts:** Autism, brain, autistic people, patient buddy · **What happens:** be, work, find, help · **To what, where:** difference, unwritten playground rules

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel» of the reflection 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 (Autism, brain, autistic people, patient buddy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:021-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel.lesson:17
# text = Autism is a difference in how the brain works; autistic people may find unwritten playground rules confusing, and a patient buddy can help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 021-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Autism	autism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	autistic	autistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	unwritten	unwritten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	confusing	confusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
23	buddy	buddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Autism | a difference |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | the brain |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | may | autistic people | unwritten playground rules |  |  |  | confusing *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic |
| 4 | **help** | can | a patient buddy |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:reflection:021-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel.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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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