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title: Both are right to doubt. — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Both are right to doubt. Who acts: Both. A sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 11

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Both are right to doubt.

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**Who acts:** Both · **What happens:** be, doubt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history 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 (Both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:11
# text = Both are right to doubt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.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	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	doubt	doubt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Both |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **doubt** | to-infinitive | Both *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:11`.

**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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