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title: A good habit is to ask «how would this really work?»: germs are on t… — Home myths, first aid and weather warnings · tree and pragmatics
description: A good habit is to ask «how would this really work?»: germs are on the floor already, so they get onto dropped food at once, and smoke goes wherever air goes, so only a closed door slows it down. Who acts: good habit, this, germs, smoke. A sentence of the lesson «Home myths, first aid and weather wa
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# Home myths, first aid and weather warnings, sentence 1

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A good habit is to ask «how would this really work?»: germs are on the floor already, so they get onto dropped food at once, and smoke goes wherever air goes, so only a closed door slows it down.

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**Who acts:** good habit, this, germs, smoke, air, closed door · **What happens:** be, work, get, drop, go, close · **To what, where:** floor, dropped food, air · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» 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 (good habit, this, germs, smoke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:1
# text = A good habit is to ask «how would this really work?»: germs are on the floor already, so they get onto dropped food at once, and smoke goes wherever air goes, so only a closed door slows it down.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
11	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
21	already	already	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
35	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
43	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	down	down	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: ask* | present | a good habit |  |  |  |  | ask *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** *in a quote* | would | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | germs |  |  | the floor |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | present | germs *= germ* |  |  | dropped food |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme onto food=Destination |
| 5 | **drop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | present | smoke |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | present | air |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **slow down** | present | a closed door | air |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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**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 ×1, 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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