--- title: The best checks are simple: read the sign yourself, ask the person k… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics description: The best checks are simple: read the sign yourself, ask the person kindly, or say «I don't know» — it is allowed. Who acts: best checks, I. 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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 (best checks, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:9 # text = The best checks are simple: read the sign yourself, ask the person kindly, or say «I don't know» — it is allowed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 checks check NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the best checks | | | | | simple *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **read** | infinitive | | the sign | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | the person | | | kindly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **allow** | present · passive | | person | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | 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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:9`. **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. 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