--- title: The wise move with big questions is to ask them freely, listen to ma… — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics description: The wise move with big questions is to ask them freely, listen to many answers, and be careful with jokes about death, because someone near you may be missing a person they loved. Who acts: wise move, someone, questions. A sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/6/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Souls, ghosts and stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/) / 6 # Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 6 The wise move with big questions is to ask them freely, listen to many answers, and be careful with jokes about death, because someone near you may be missing a person they loved. **Who acts:** wise move, someone, questions · **What happens:** be, listen, miss, love · **To what, where:** person This is a sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics 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 (wise move, someone, questions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:6 # text = The wise move with big questions is to ask them freely, listen to many answers, and be careful with jokes about death, because someone near you may be missing a person they loved. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 freely freely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 32 mark _ _ 27 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 nsubj _ _ 28 near near ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux _ _ 32 missing miss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | present | the wise move with big questions | | | | | ask, freely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **listen** | infinitive | the wise move with big questions *not said here* | | | | | to many answers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to answer=Theme | | 3 | **is** | infinitive | the wise move with big questions *not said here* | | | | | with jokes about death; careful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **miss** | may · progressive | someone | a person | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | | 5 | **love** | past | questions *= question* | a person *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | 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:religion-ethics:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:6`. **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): no change. **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: [Souls, ghosts and stories, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/5/) - next →: [Souls, ghosts and stories, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/)