--- title: "Tell me about volcanoes" gets a blur; "Explain in five steps why vo… — Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop · tree and pragmatics description: "Tell me about volcanoes" gets a blur; "Explain in five steps why volcanoes erupt, for a 9-year-old" gets something useful. Who acts: volcanoes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (volcanoes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:008-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop.lesson:1 # text = "Tell me about volcanoes" gets a blur; "Explain in five steps why volcanoes erupt, for a 9-year-old" gets something useful. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 008-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop.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 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 volcanoes volcano NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 blur blur NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Explain explain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 volcanoes volcano NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 erupt erupt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 22 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 obj _ _ 30 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | me | | | about volcanoes | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about volcano=Topic | | 2 | **get** | present | | a blur | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | in five steps; for a year old | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **erupt** *in a quote* | present | volcanoes | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **get** | present | | something | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | 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:008-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop.lesson:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [Pretend games, quotes and two bots tha…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/18/) - next →: [Asking well, being polite, knowing whe…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/)