--- title: Asking questions and asking for a hug are always allowed. — Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk abou… · tree and pragmatics description: Asking questions and asking for a hug are always allowed. A sentence of the lesson «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/8/) [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/) / [Scary news: wars, disasters and how to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/) / 8 # Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 8 Asking questions and asking for a hug are always allowed. **What happens:** ask, allow · **To what, where:** questions This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:8 # text = Asking questions and asking for a hug are always allowed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.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 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj:pass 2 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hug hug NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 10 advmod _ _ 10 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | for a hug | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **allow** | present · passive | | | | | | always *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» | 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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [Scary news: wars, disasters and how to…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/7/) - next →: [Scary news: wars, disasters and how to…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/)