--- title: Nobody can prove a whistle blows money away or a key on the table br… — Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody can prove a whistle blows money away or a key on the table brings money troubles — they are beliefs, not facts — but in her house you simply follow them, the way you'd take your shoes off. Who acts: Nobody, whistle, key, keys. 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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 (Nobody, whistle, key, keys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:030-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners.lesson:2 # text = Nobody can prove a whistle blows money away or a key on the table brings money troubles — they are beliefs, not facts — but in her house you simply follow them, the way you'd take your shoes off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ukrainian-street # lesson = 030-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked 8 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 troubles trouble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 beliefs belief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 simply simply ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 off off ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prove** | can | Nobody | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **blow away** | present | a whistle | money | | | | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 3 | **bring** | present | a key on the table | money troubles | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | keys *= key* | beliefs and facts | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **follow** | present | you | keys *= key* | | granny's house | | the way *obl:unmarked*; simply *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in house=Trajectory | | 6 | **take off** | would | you | your shoes | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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:ukrainian-street:030-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners.lesson:2`. **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, R7-rel-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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