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title: The four safety steps are: stop, think, check, ask. — Stop, think, check, ask · tree and pragmatics
description: The four safety steps are: stop, think, check, ask. Who acts: four safety steps. 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.
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# Stop, think, check, ask, sentence 8

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The four safety steps are: stop, think, check, ask.

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**Who acts:** four safety steps · **What happens:** be, think, check, ask · **To what, where:** stop

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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 (four safety steps), 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:8
# text = The four safety steps are: stop, think, check, ask.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
7	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the four safety steps | stop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **check** | infinitive | the four safety steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/).

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