--- title: When you wonder why something happens, like why the sky is blue, ask… — Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a… · tree and pragmatics description: When you wonder why something happens, like why the sky is blue, ask questions and look it up in books or with an adult; curiosity helps you learn. Who acts: you, something, sky, curiosity. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, something, sky, curiosity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:20 # text = When you wonder why something happens, like why the sky is blue, ask questions and look it up in books or with an adult; curiosity helps you learn. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wonder wonder VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 4 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 6 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 15 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | you | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **happen** | present | something | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the sky | | | | | blue *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 5 | **look up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | sky | | books or a adult | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | | 6 | **help** | present | curiosity | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **learn** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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): 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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