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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 (horse, water, bumps), 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:8 # text = A horse that could pull about 2 tonnes in a cart on a road could pull a canal boat carrying about 30 tonnes, because water holds the boat up and there are no bumps. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 15 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 16 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 | **pull about** | could | a horse | 2 tonnes | | a cart | | on a road | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tonne=Theme | | 2 | **pull** | could | a horse | a canal boat | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | a horse *not said here* | 30 tonnes | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tonne=Theme | | 4 | **hold up** | present | water | the boat | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boat=Theme | | 5 | **does** | present | no bumps | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:8`. **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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