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description: So sort each kitchen rule with one question: "What would really happen, and how do we know?" Keep the safe ones even if the reason you were told was wrong. Who acts: you, we, reason. A sentence of the lesson «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Food on the floor and kitchen rules, sentence 4

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So sort each kitchen rule with one question: "What would really happen, and how do we know?" Keep the safe ones even if the reason you were told was wrong.

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**Who acts:** you, we, reason · **What happens:** sort, happen, know, keep, tell, be · **To what, where:** kitchen rule, safe ones, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» 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 (you, we, reason), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:022-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules.lesson:4
# text = So sort each kitchen rule with one question: "What would really happen, and how do we know?" Keep the safe ones even if the reason you were told was wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 022-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sort	sort	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	really	really	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	happen	happen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
23	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **sort** | imperative | you *not said here* | each kitchen rule |  |  |  | with one question | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** *in a quote* | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive |  | the safe ones |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | the reason *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the reason |  |  |  |  | wrong *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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**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, 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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