--- title: The useful habit is to ask "Is this real, how likely is it, and what… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: The useful habit is to ask "Is this real, how likely is it, and what would I do?": a drill is practice, a scary YouTube "end of the world" is clickbait, but a man in a car offering a lift is a real danger, and running home and telling was exactly right. 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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 (useful habit, this, drill, scary YouTube end), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:4 # text = The useful habit is to ask "Is this real, how likely is it, and what would I do?": a drill is practice, a scary YouTube "end of the world" is clickbait, but a man in a car offering a lift is a real danger, and running home and telling was exactly right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 12 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 13 likely likely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 obj _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 drill drill NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 31 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:amod 32 YouTube YouTube PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 34 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 clickbait clickbait NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj 41 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 offering offer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 acl _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 conj _ _ 58 home home ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:conj 61 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 cop _ _ 62 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 63 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 xcomp _ _ 64 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=evaluate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *speech: ask* | present | the useful habit | | | | | ask *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | worry | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | would | the useful habit *= habit* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 5 | **is a** | present | a drill | practice | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | a scary YouTube end of the world | clickbait but a real danger | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **offer** | gerund | a man in a car *not said here* | a lift | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent lift=Theme | | 8 | **is a** | present | a man in a car | a real danger | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **run** | gerund | a man in a car *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a man in a car *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | a man in a car *not said here* | | | | | exactly, right *property* | tree rules | 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:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, 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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