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title: The calm detective habit wins every time: slow down, look for the cl… — Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The calm detective habit wins every time: slow down, look for the clue, check with a trusted source and tell a grown-up when it matters. Who acts: calm detective habit, it. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★, sentence 5

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The calm detective habit wins every time: slow down, look for the clue, check with a trusted source and tell a grown-up when it matters.

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**Who acts:** calm detective habit, it · **What happens:** win, slow down, look, check, trust, tell · **To what, where:** grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» 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 (calm detective habit, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.lesson:5
# text = The calm detective habit wins every time: slow down, look for the clue, check with a trusted source and tell a grown-up when it matters.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
2	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
3	detective	detective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound
5	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	slow	slow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
25	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **win** | present | the calm detective habit |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slow down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for the clue | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for clue=Theme |
| 4 | **check** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with a trusted source | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient |
| 7 | **matter** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: 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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**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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