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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 (water mill, wheel, heavy millstones, Domesday Book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:15 # text = A water-mill uses moving water to turn a wheel, which turns heavy millstones that grind grain into flour; the Domesday Book of 1086 counted more than 5,000 mills in England. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 millstones millstone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 18 grind grind VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Domesday Domesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Book Book PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1086 1086 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nmod _ _ 28 counted count VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 31 advmod _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 5,000 5000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 mills mill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 35 . . 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 | **use** | present | a water mill | moving water | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 2 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive | a water mill *not said here* | a wheel | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | present | a wheel | heavy millstones | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent millstone=Theme | | 5 | **grind** | present | heavy millstones | grain | | flour | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent grain=Material into flour=Product | | 6 | **count** | past | the Domesday Book of 1086 | 5,000 mills | | England | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Theme | 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:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:15`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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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