--- title: If you are not sure about a detail, it is honest and helpful to say… — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics description: If you are not sure about a detail, it is honest and helpful to say «I'm not sure». Who acts: you, I. A sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Remembering details](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/) / 15 # Remembering details, sentence 15 If you are not sure about a detail, it is honest and helpful to say «I'm not sure». **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not be, be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» 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, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:018-remembering-details.lesson:15 # text = If you are not sure about a detail, it is honest and helpful to say «I'm not sure». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 018-remembering-details.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 ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 detail detail NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advcl 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | about a detail; sure *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | 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:018-remembering-details.lesson:15`. **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 ×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: [Remembering details, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/14/) - next →: [Remembering details, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/)