--- title: When you cannot answer a question after a talk, it is fine to say "G… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics description: When you cannot answer a question after a talk, it is fine to say "Good question, I'll find out" instead of making something up. Who acts: you, I. 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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 (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:15 # text = When you cannot answer a question after a talk, it is fine to say "Good question, I'll find out" instead of making something up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 csubj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 26 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 28 mark _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 advcl _ _ 29 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 obj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | can | you | a question | | | after a talk | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | Good question | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **find out** *in a quote* | future | I | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make up** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Pivot | 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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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