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title: The wise habits: ask «How do you know that?», do not pass it on, che… — Rumours and gossip · tree and pragmatics
description: The wise habits: ask «How do you know that?», do not pass it on, check important news with a teacher or parent, and judge people by how they treat you yourself. Who acts: wise habits, you, people. A sentence of the lesson «Rumours and gossip» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Rumours and gossip, sentence 4

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The wise habits: ask «How do you know that?», do not pass it on, check important news with a teacher or parent, and judge people by how they treat you yourself.

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**Who acts:** wise habits, you, people · **What happens:** ask, know, not pass on, check, judge, treat · **To what, where:** that, gossip, important news, people, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours and gossip» 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 (wise habits, you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip.lesson:4
# text = The wise habits: ask «How do you know that?», do not pass it on, check important news with a teacher or parent, and judge people by how they treat you yourself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 202-rumours-and-gossip.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	pass	pass	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	judge	judge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	treat	treat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:appos
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the wise habits *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **pass on** | infinitive · do-support |  | gossip |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **check** | infinitive |  | important news |  |  |  | with a teacher or parent | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme |
| 5 | **judge** | infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent people=Value |
| 6 | **treat** | present | people |  | you |  |  | yourself *obl* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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, 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.

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