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title: Everyone misreads faces sometimes, so it is fair to check by asking. — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone misreads faces sometimes, so it is fair to check by asking. Who acts: Everyone. 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 20

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Everyone misreads faces sometimes, so it is fair to check by asking.

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**Who acts:** Everyone · **What happens:** misread, be, check, ask · **To what, where:** faces

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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 (Everyone), 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:20
# text = Everyone misreads faces sometimes, so it is fair to check by asking.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	misreads	misread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **misread** | present | Everyone | faces |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **check** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:20`.

**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/).

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