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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 (Roman emperor, honest diary, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:7 # text = The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius kept a private notebook, the Meditations, to be honest with himself; an honest diary helps you see both sides. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 Marcus Marcus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 Aurelius Aurelius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 notebook notebook NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Meditations meditation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 diary diary NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | the Roman emperor | a private notebook | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notebook=Theme | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Roman emperor *not said here* | | | | | with emperor; honest *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **help** | present | a honest diary | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **see** | infinitive | you | both sides | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus | 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:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:7`. **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, 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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