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title: One complaint is not a pattern; get facts before you warn people off… — Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation · tree and pragmatics
description: One complaint is not a pattern; get facts before you warn people off a business. Who acts: One complaint, you. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 25

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One complaint is not a pattern; get facts before you warn people off a business.

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**Who acts:** One complaint, you · **What happens:** not be, get, warn · **To what, where:** pattern, facts, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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 (One complaint, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:25
# text = One complaint is not a pattern; get facts before you warn people off a business.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.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
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
9	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	warn	warn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | One complaint | a pattern |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive |  | facts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | you |  | people |  |  | off a business | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |

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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:adult-life:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:25`.

**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. **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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