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title: It cannot look out of the window, it cannot keep a secret like a fri… — Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop · tree and pragmatics
description: It cannot look out of the window, it cannot keep a secret like a friend, because chats may be stored, and it often cannot truly explain its own mistakes; its explanations of itself may be guesses too. Who acts: blur. A sentence of the lesson «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» of the a
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# Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop, sentence 3

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It cannot look out of the window, it cannot keep a secret like a friend, because chats may be stored, and it often cannot truly explain its own mistakes; its explanations of itself may be guesses too.

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**Who acts:** blur · **What happens:** not look out, not keep, store, not explain, be, mistake · **To what, where:** window, secret, chats, own mistakes, guesses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» 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 (blur), 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:3
# text = It cannot look out of the window, it cannot keep a secret like a friend, because chats may be stored, and it often cannot truly explain its own mistakes; its explanations of itself may be guesses too.
# 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): no change
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	explanations	explanation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	38	nmod	_	_
41	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
43	guesses	guess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
44	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **look out** | can | blur | the window |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **keep** | can | blur | a secret |  |  |  | like a friend | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 3 | **store** | may · passive |  | chats |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **explain** *speech: assert* | can | blur | blur's own mistakes |  |  |  | blur's explanations of blur *obl*; often, truly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | may | blur *not said here* | guesses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mistake** |  | blur |  |  |  |  |  | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **explain** |  | blur |  |  |  |  |  | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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): no change. **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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