--- title: So check before you argue, check together rather than against each o… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics description: So check before you argue, check together rather than against each other, and never make it about someone's family, cleverness or feelings. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» 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/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/4/) [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/) / [Friends who cling to a legend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/) / 4 # Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 4 So check before you argue, check together rather than against each other, and never make it about someone's family, cleverness or feelings. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** check, argue, not make · **To what, where:** WRONG This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:4 # text = So check before you argue, check together rather than against each other, and never make it about someone's family, cleverness or feelings. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 before before SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 8 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 7 advmod _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 against against ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 9 obl _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 fixed _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 cleverness cleverness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | you | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **check** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | WRONG | | | | about someone's family and cleverness or feelings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=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:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Friends who cling to a legend, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/3/) - next →: [Friends who cling to a legend, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/)