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title: So a good habit is old and new at once: ask where an idea came from,… — Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, ches… · tree and pragmatics
description: So a good habit is old and new at once: ask where an idea came from, and check before you share. Who acts: good habit, idea, you. A sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news, sentence 4

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So a good habit is old and new at once: ask where an idea came from, and check before you share.

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**Who acts:** good habit, idea, you · **What happens:** be, ask, come, check, share

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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 (good habit, idea, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:4
# text = So a good habit is old and new at once: ask where an idea came from, and check before you share.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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): no change
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | a good habit |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a good habit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | a idea |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **check** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **share** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:4`.

**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): no change. **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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