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title: A kind private message such as "I think this one is old, here's wher… — Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet · tree and pragmatics
description: A kind private message such as "I think this one is old, here's where I checked" works better than laughing at someone in the group. Who acts: I, one, kind private message. A sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with
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# Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 12

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A kind private message such as "I think this one is old, here's where I checked" works better than laughing at someone in the group.

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**Who acts:** I, one, kind private message · **What happens:** think, be, check, work, laugh · **To what, where:** someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics 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 (I, one, kind private message), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:12
# text = A kind private message such as "I think this one is old, here's where I checked" works better than laughing at someone in the group.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
21	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
23	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:acl
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this one |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **check** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work** | present | a kind private message |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **laugh** | gerund | a kind private message *not said here* |  |  | someone |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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