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title: Rare or tricky questions get answers that only sound good. — Sounding right and being right · tree and pragmatics
description: Rare or tricky questions get answers that only sound good. Who acts: Rare questions, answers. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sounding right and being right, sentence 4

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Rare or tricky questions get answers that only sound good.

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**Who acts:** Rare questions, answers · **What happens:** get, sound · **To what, where:** 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 (Rare questions, answers), 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:4
# text = Rare or tricky questions get answers that only sound good.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	tricky	tricky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Rare questions | answers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sound** | present | answers |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:4`.

**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): R8-pos-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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