--- title: Mrs Okafor thinks, and says: «That's a fair question, Sam. — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics description: Mrs Okafor thinks, and says: «That's a fair question, Sam. Who acts: Mrs, That. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/9/) [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/) / [Speaking up is bravery too](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/) / 9 # Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 9 Mrs Okafor thinks, and says: «That's a fair question, Sam. **Who acts:** Mrs, That · **What happens:** think, say, be · **To what, where:** fair question · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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 (Mrs, That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:9 # text = Mrs Okafor thinks, and says: «That's a fair question, Sam. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 Okafor Okafor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 mark _ _ 9 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 10 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 vocative _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 16 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mrs | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | a fair question | | | | Sam *vocative* | 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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Speaking up is bravery too, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/8/) - next →: [Speaking up is bravery too, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/)