--- title: If what you see does not match what you are told, it is fine to ask. — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: If what you see does not match what you are told, it is fine to ask. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/41/) [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/) / [Big kids, little kids and the truth at…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/) / 41 # Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 41 If what you see does not match what you are told, it is fine to ask. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, not match, tell, be, ask · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:41 # text = If what you see does not match what you are told, it is fine to ask. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.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 ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 18 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **match** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:41`. **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 ×2. **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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