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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 (laws, driver, honest cyclists, countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:9 # text = Many countries' laws say a driver who hits a parked car must leave their name; honest cyclists do the same. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 ' 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hits hit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 parked park VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cyclists cyclist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Many countries's laws | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hit** | present | a driver | a parked car | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Co-Theme | | 3 | **park** | participle | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **leave** | must | a driver | countries's name | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | | 5 | **do** | present | honest cyclists | the same | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | | 6 | **name** | | countries *= country* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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): 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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