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title: Curiosity is how we learn: asking «why?» and then looking for the an… — Responsibility, independence and curiosity · tree and pragmatics
description: Curiosity is how we learn: asking «why?» and then looking for the answer yourself in books or with an adult makes you a strong learner. Who acts: Curiosity, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Responsibility, independence and curiosity, sentence 2

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Curiosity is how we learn: asking «why?» and then looking for the answer yourself in books or with an adult makes you a strong learner.

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**Who acts:** Curiosity, adult · **What happens:** be, ask, look, make · **To what, where:** yourself, books, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» of the everyday 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 (Curiosity, adult), 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:2
# text = Curiosity is how we learn: asking «why?» and then looking for the answer yourself in books or with an adult makes you a strong 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	ccomp	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	learner	learner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **is** | present | Curiosity |  |  |  |  | learn *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Curiosity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Curiosity *not said here* | yourself |  | books | then | for the answer | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | present | a adult | you |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product |

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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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**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:2`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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