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title: Understanding the trick protects you; you never need to make one. — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Understanding the trick protects you; you never need to make one. Who acts: Understanding, you. A sentence of the lesson «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 4

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Understanding the trick protects you; you never need to make one.

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**Who acts:** Understanding, you · **What happens:** understand, protect, not need, make · **To what, where:** trick, you, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral facts and chain messages» 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 (Understanding, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:4
# text = Understanding the trick protects you; you never need to make one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Understanding	understand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **understand** | gerund |  | the trick |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus |
| 2 | **protect** | present | Understanding |  | you |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **need** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |

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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:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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