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title: Asking for help when stuck is clever, not weak, and often makes home… — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking for help when stuck is clever, not weak, and often makes homework faster. Who acts: Asking. A sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Homework first?, sentence 28

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Asking for help when stuck is clever, not weak, and often makes homework faster.

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**Who acts:** Asking · **What happens:** ask, be, not be, make · **To what, where:** homework

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» 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 (Asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:419-homework-first.lesson:28
# text = Asking for help when stuck is clever, not weak, and often makes homework faster.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 419-homework-first.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
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Asking |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **be** |  | Asking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | present | Asking *not said here* | homework |  |  |  | fast, often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset homework=Product |

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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:419-homework-first.lesson:28`.

**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. **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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