--- title: To check a frightening message about family, call the family member… — Stop, think, check, ask · tree and pragmatics description: To check a frightening message about family, call the family member on a number you already know. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Stop, think, check, ask» of the ai 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/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/18/) [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/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / [Stop, think, check, ask](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/) / 18 # Stop, think, check, ask, sentence 18 To check a frightening message about family, call the family member on a number you already know. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** check, call, know · **To what, where:** frightening message, family member, number · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Stop, think, check, ask» of the ai 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:014-stop-think-check-ask.lesson:18 # text = To check a frightening message about family, call the family member on a number you already know. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 014-stop-think-check-ask.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 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 frightening frightening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 already already ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a frightening message | | | | about family | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | | 2 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* | the family member | | a number | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent member=Recipient | | 3 | **know** | present | you | a number *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | 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:ai:014-stop-think-check-ask.lesson:18`. **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: [Stop, think, check, ask, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/17/) - next →: [Bots are not doctors, helplines are pe…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/)