--- title: A good habit for loud dinners: ask "which decision do you mean?", te… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: A good habit for loud dinners: ask "which decision do you mean?", tell opinions from facts, and check a clip twice if it makes you very angry. Who acts: you, opinions, clip. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, opinions, clip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:7 # text = A good habit for loud dinners: ask "which decision do you mean?", tell opinions from facts, and check a clip twice if it makes you very angry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 dinners dinner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 11 det _ _ 11 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 opinions opinion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 24 advmod _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 very very ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | which decision | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decision=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | opinions | | | facts | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **check** | infinitive | opinions *not said here* | a clip | | | | twice *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme | | 5 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | clip | you | | | | angry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=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:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:7`. **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 ×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. 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