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title: So common questions, like why the sky is blue, get good answers, bec… — Sounding right and being right · tree and pragmatics
description: So common questions, like why the sky is blue, get good answers, because thousands of people have explained them well. Who acts: sky, common questions, thousands. A sentence of the lesson «Sounding right and being right» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Sounding right and being right, sentence 3

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So common questions, like why the sky is blue, get good answers, because thousands of people have explained them well.

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**Who acts:** sky, common questions, thousands · **What happens:** be, get, explain · **To what, where:** good answers, answers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounding right and being right» 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 (sky, common questions, thousands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:003-sounding-right-and-being-right.lesson:3
# text = So common questions, like why the sky is blue, get good answers, because thousands of people have explained them well.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 003-sounding-right-and-being-right.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
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
2	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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** | present | the sky |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | common questions | good answers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | thousands of people | answers *= answer* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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:003-sounding-right-and-being-right.lesson:3`.

**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. **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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