--- title: Asking someone you trust before a «great deal» stops most tricks. — The older kid's «trade» · tree and pragmatics description: Asking someone you trust before a «great deal» stops most tricks. Who acts: you, deal ». A sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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/445-the-older-kids-trade/31/) [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/) / [The older kid's «trade»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/) / 31 # The older kid's «trade», sentence 31 Asking someone you trust before a «great deal» stops most tricks. **Who acts:** you, deal » · **What happens:** ask, trust, stop · **To what, where:** someone, most tricks This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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, deal »), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:31 # text = Asking someone you trust before a «great deal» stops most tricks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 445-the-older-kids-trade.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 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 13 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | someone | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | | 2 | **trust** | present | you | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** | present | deal » | most tricks | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trick=Eventuality | 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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:31`. **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: [The older kid's «trade», 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/30/) - next →: [The older kid's «trade», 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/)