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title: Not everyone who stares or whispers is an enemy; it is wise not to a… — The kid who has it in for you · tree and pragmatics
description: Not everyone who stares or whispers is an enemy; it is wise not to assume the worst. Who acts: everyone. A sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The kid who has it in for you, sentence 25

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Not everyone who stares or whispers is an enemy; it is wise not to assume the worst.

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**Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** stare, be, not assume · **To what, where:** enemy, worst

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» 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 (everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.lesson:25
# text = Not everyone who stares or whispers is an enemy; it is wise not to assume the worst.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.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 ×1
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stares	stare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	whispers	whisper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	assume	assume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **stare** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | everyone | a enemy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **assume** | to-infinitive |  | the worst |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bad=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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.

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