--- title: "Not sure yet" is an honest answer, and a small idea, like a council… — Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet · tree and pragmatics description: "Not sure yet" is an honest answer, and a small idea, like a council discussing pets, can grow into a bigger story as it is passed on. Who acts: pets. 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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 (pets), 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:9 # text = "Not sure yet" is an honest answer, and a small idea, like a council discussing pets, can grow into a bigger story as it is passed on. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 yet yet ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 discussing discuss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 grow grow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ _ 32 on on ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 33 . . 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 | **is a** | present | | a honest answer | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | gerund | pets | a council *not said here* | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Topic | | 3 | **grow** | can | | | | | | into a bigger story *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into story=Result | | 4 | **pass on** | present · passive | | story | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:9`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Checking practice: true, false and not…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/8/) - next →: [Checking practice: true, false and not…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/)