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title: Curiosity helps you learn: ask questions and look things up in books… — Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair… · tree and pragmatics
description: Curiosity helps you learn: ask questions and look things up in books or with an adult. Who acts: Curiosity, you. A sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play, sentence 10

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Curiosity helps you learn: ask questions and look things up in books or with an adult.

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**Who acts:** Curiosity, you · **What happens:** help, learn, ask, look up · **To what, where:** questions, things, books

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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 (Curiosity, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:10
# text = Curiosity helps you learn: ask questions and look things up in books or with an adult.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.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	Curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **help** | present | Curiosity |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 4 | **look up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | things |  | books or a adult |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute |

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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:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:10`.

**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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