--- title: It can also mix things up: "colour" one day and "color" the next, or… — Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop · tree and pragmatics description: It can also mix things up: "colour" one day and "color" the next, or two famous people with the same surname blended into one. Who acts: secret. 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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 (secret), 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:4 # text = It can also mix things up: "colour" one day and "color" the next, or two famous people with the same surname blended into one. # 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 ×2 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 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 mix mix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 color color NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 surname surname NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 blended blend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix up** | can | secret | things | | | | the next *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **blend** | participle | | the same surname *not said here* | | | | into one | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into one=Co-Patient | 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: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): R5-strong ×2. **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: [Asking well, being polite, knowing whe…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/3/) - next →: [Asking well, being polite, knowing whe…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/)