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title: Checking the weather and choosing layers helps you dress yourself to… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Checking the weather and choosing layers helps you dress yourself to stay warm or cool. Who acts: Checking, you. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 11

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Checking the weather and choosing layers helps you dress yourself to stay warm or cool.

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**Who acts:** Checking, you · **What happens:** check, choose, help, dress, stay · **To what, where:** weather, layers, you, yourself

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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 (Checking, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:11
# text = Checking the weather and choosing layers helps you dress yourself to stay warm or cool.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.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 ×1
1	Checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
6	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | gerund |  | the weather |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | gerund |  | layers |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present | Checking | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **dress** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
| 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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