--- title: Good questions can be answered by looking in books or asking an adul… — Responsibility, independence and curiosity · tree and pragmatics description: Good questions can be answered by looking in books or asking an adult, and trying to find the answer yourself makes you a better learner. 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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:12 # text = Good questions can be answered by looking in books or asking an adult, and trying to find the answer yourself makes you a better learner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.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 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 26 learner learner NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | can · passive | | Good questions | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | in books | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in book=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | a adult | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 4 | **try** | gerund | | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | the answer yourself | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic | | 6 | **make** | present | | you | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | 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:everyday:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:12`. **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. **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: [Responsibility, independence and curio…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/11/) - next →: [Responsibility, independence and curio…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/)