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title: When someone sells a cure for a problem, first check the problem is… — Your amazing brain and senses · tree and pragmatics
description: When someone sells a cure for a problem, first check the problem is real. Who acts: someone, you, problem. A sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Your amazing brain and senses, sentence 17

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When someone sells a cure for a problem, first check the problem is real.

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**Who acts:** someone, you, problem · **What happens:** sell, check, be · **To what, where:** cure

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths 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 (someone, you, problem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:17
# text = When someone sells a cure for a problem, first check the problem is real.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present | someone | a cure |  |  |  | for a problem | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cure=Theme for problem=Asset |
| 2 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the problem |  |  |  |  | real *property* | 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:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:17`.

**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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