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title: Good habits help: check a proper news site, look at the date and the… — Rumours about classmates and what to do with a s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Good habits help: check a proper news site, look at the date and the account's name, slow down when a story makes you angry fast, and change nothing to make it funnier. Who acts: Good habits, story, account. A sentence of the lesson «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» of the adul
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# Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret, sentence 2

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Good habits help: check a proper news site, look at the date and the account's name, slow down when a story makes you angry fast, and change nothing to make it funnier.

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**Who acts:** Good habits, story, account · **What happens:** help, check, look, slow down, make, change · **To what, where:** proper news site, you, nothing, story

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» 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 (Good habits, story, account), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:2
# text = Good habits help: check a proper news site, look at the date and the account's name, slow down when a story makes you angry fast, and change nothing to make it funnier.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	slow	slow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	change	change	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	funnier	funny	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	xcomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Good habits |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **check** | infinitive |  | a proper news site |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent site=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at the date and the account's name | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at date=Theme |
| 4 | **slow down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | present | a story | you |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 6 | **change** | infinitive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | story |  |  |  | funny *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 8 | **name** |  | the account |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×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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