--- title: If a question asks for several things («Name two things»), the answe… — Retrieval: finding the answer in the text · tree and pragmatics description: If a question asks for several things («Name two things»), the answer needs every part. Who acts: question, answer. A sentence of the lesson «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the english 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/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/18/) [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/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Retrieval: finding the answer in the t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/) / 18 # Retrieval: finding the answer in the text, sentence 18 If a question asks for several things («Name two things»), the answer needs every part. **Who acts:** question, answer · **What happens:** ask, name, need · **To what, where:** two things, part · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the english 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 (question, answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.lesson:18 # text = If a question asks for several things («Name two things»), the answer needs every part. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Name name VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a question | | | | | for several things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **name** *in a quote* | infinitive | | two things | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 3 | **need** | present | the answer | every part | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot part=Theme | 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:english:017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.lesson:18`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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