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title: Asking «Are you okay?» is a simple and kind way to check how someone… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking «Are you okay?» is a simple and kind way to check how someone feels. Who acts: you, Asking, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading faces and voices, sentence 16

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Asking «Are you okay?» is a simple and kind way to check how someone feels.

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**Who acts:** you, Asking, someone · **What happens:** ask, be, check, feel · **To what, where:** simple way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» 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 (you, Asking, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:16
# text = Asking «Are you okay?» is a simple and kind way to check how someone feels.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 014-faces-and-voices.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
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
18	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Asking | a simple way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **check** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:16`.

**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. **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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