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title: If you don't know what a word means, ask a trusted adult or look it… — "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason · tree and pragmatics
description: If you don't know what a word means, ask a trusted adult or look it up before using it. Who acts: you, word. A sentence of the lesson «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason, sentence 23

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If you don't know what a word means, ask a trusted adult or look it up before using it.

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**Who acts:** you, word · **What happens:** not know, mean, ask, look up, use · **To what, where:** trusted adult, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» of the world 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 (you, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason.lesson:23
# text = If you don't know what a word means, ask a trusted adult or look it up before using it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	trusted	trusted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **not** **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a word |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **look up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | adult |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |
| 5 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | adult |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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**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:world:166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason.lesson:23`.

**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/).

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