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title: Renaming a floor does not change its height: in a hotel whose lift b… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics
description: Renaming a floor does not change its height: in a hotel whose lift buttons go 12, 14, the floor marked 14 is really the 13th floor. Who acts: Renaming, lift buttons, floor. A sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 19

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Renaming a floor does not change its height: in a hotel whose lift buttons go 12, 14, the floor marked 14 is really the 13th floor.

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**Who acts:** Renaming, lift buttons, floor · **What happens:** rename, not change, go, mark, be · **To what, where:** floor, height, 12, 14, 13th floor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Renaming, lift buttons, floor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:19
# text = Renaming a floor does not change its height: in a hotel whose lift buttons go 12, 14, the floor marked 14 is really the 13th floor.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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
1	Renaming	rename	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	lift	lift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
23	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	really	really	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	13th	13th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rename** | gerund |  | a floor |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | Renaming | floor's height |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | present | lift buttons | 12 |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 12=Theme |
| 4 | **mark** | participle | the floor *not said here* | 14 |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent 14=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the floor | the 13th floor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:19`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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