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title: Asking two people the same small questions separately shows whether… — Stories that change · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking two people the same small questions separately shows whether their stories really match. Who acts: Asking, stories. A sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories that change, sentence 40

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Asking two people the same small questions separately shows whether their stories really match.

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**Who acts:** Asking, stories · **What happens:** ask, show, match · **To what, where:** same small questions, two people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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, stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:449-stories-that-change.lesson:40
# text = Asking two people the same small questions separately shows whether their stories really match.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 449-stories-that-change.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	iobj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
8	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	really	really	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	match	match	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  | the same small questions | two people |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | Asking |  |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **match** | present | people's stories |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:40`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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