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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 (punt, painter), 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:17 # text = A punt is a flat-bottomed boat pushed along with a long pole on shallow rivers; a painter is the rope at the front of a boat used to tie it up. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 punt punt NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 bottomed bottom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 along along ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 painter painter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 tie tie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bottom** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | a punt | a bottomed boat | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **push** | participle | | a bottomed boat *not said here* | | shallow rivers | | along a long pole | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent along pole=Trajectory | | 4 | **is a** | present | a painter | the rope | | the front of a boat | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | participle | | a boat *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **tie up** | to-infinitive | | painter | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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: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): R5-strong ×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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