--- title: Thinking about the future, for example by writing letters to it, hel… — The future: fears, rules and your part · tree and pragmatics description: Thinking about the future, for example by writing letters to it, helps us decide what we want now. Who acts: Thinking, us, we. A sentence of the lesson «The future: fears, rules and your part» 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/25-future-fears-rules/12/) [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/) / [The future: fears, rules and your part](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/) / 12 # The future: fears, rules and your part, sentence 12 Thinking about the future, for example by writing letters to it, helps us decide what we want now. **Who acts:** Thinking, us, we · **What happens:** think, write, help, decide, want · **To what, where:** letters, example, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The future: fears, rules and your part» 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 (Thinking, us, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:025-future-fears-rules.lesson:12 # text = Thinking about the future, for example by writing letters to it, helps us decide what we want now. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 025-future-fears-rules.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 2 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 writing write VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 advcl _ _ 10 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 obj _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl:relcl 20 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | about the future; for example | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about future=Topic | | 2 | **write** | gerund | | letters | example | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to it=Recipient | | 3 | **help** | present | Thinking | us | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **decide** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent what=Co-Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **want** | present | we | | | | now | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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:025-future-fears-rules.lesson:12`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [The future: fears, rules and your part, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/11/) - next →: [The future: fears, rules and your part, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/)