--- title: Never sign something you do not understand; asking questions first i… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics description: Never sign something you do not understand; asking questions first is what sensible adults do. Who acts: you, asking, sensible adults. A sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Looking after yourself and a home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/) / 17 # Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 17 Never sign something you do not understand; asking questions first is what sensible adults do. **Who acts:** you, asking, sensible adults · **What happens:** not sign, not understand, ask, be, do · **To what, where:** something, questions This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life 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 (you, asking, sensible adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:17 # text = Never sign something you do not understand; asking questions first is what sensible adults do. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.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 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 sign sign VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 10 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 advmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 parataxis _ _ 14 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sign** | imperative | you *not said here* | something | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Destination | | 2 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | questions | | | | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | present | asking | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | present | sensible adults | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Looking after yourself and a home, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/16/) - next →: [Looking after yourself and a home, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/)