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title: «A good innings» is a saying from cricket that means a long, full li… — Living well because life is short · tree and pragmatics
description: «A good innings» is a saying from cricket that means a long, full life. Who acts: good innings, saying. A sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Living well because life is short, sentence 13

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«A good innings» is a saying from cricket that means a long, full life.

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**Who acts:** good innings, saying · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** saying, cricket, long full life

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» of the religion ethics 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 (good innings, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:076-living-well-because-life-is-short.lesson:13
# text = «A good innings» is a saying from cricket that means a long, full life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 076-living-well-because-life-is-short.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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	innings	inning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	saying	say	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | a good innings | a saying |  | cricket |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a saying | a long full life |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |

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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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**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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