--- title: To check a hero story, ask "who did this before?" and "who helped?";… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: To check a hero story, ask "who did this before?" and "who helped?"; the answer usually makes the hero more human, not less great. Who acts: answer. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Explorers, scientists and inventors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/) / 6 # Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 6 To check a hero story, ask "who did this before?" and "who helped?"; the answer usually makes the hero more human, not less great. **Who acts:** answer · **What happens:** check, ask, do, help, make · **To what, where:** hero story, this, hero · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» 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 (answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:6 # text = To check a hero story, ask "who did this before?" and "who helped?"; the answer usually makes the hero more human, not less great. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 11 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 obj _ _ 12 before before ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 usually usually ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 29 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 32 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 33 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | to-infinitive | the answer *not said here* | a hero story | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the answer *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | | this | | | | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 4 | **help** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | the answer | the hero | | | | human, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hero=Product | 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. **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:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:6`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5. **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/). - ← previous: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/5/) - next →: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/)