--- title: A good judge would hold firm and explain why. — Sounding right and being right · tree and pragmatics description: A good judge would hold firm and explain why. Who acts: good judge. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/6/) [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/) / [Sounding right and being right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/) / 6 # Sounding right and being right, sentence 6 A good judge would hold firm and explain why. **Who acts:** good judge · **What happens:** hold, explain · **To what, where:** firm 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 (good judge), 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:6 # text = A good judge would hold firm and explain why. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 firm firm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 8 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 9 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | would | a good judge | firm | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firm=Theme | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a good judge *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:003-sounding-right-and-being-right.lesson:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Sounding right and being right, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/5/) - next →: [Sounding right and being right, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/)