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title: The cure is slow and simple: read every word, ask "what did it actua… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics
description: The cure is slow and simple: read every word, ask "what did it actually say?", then answer. Who acts: cure. A sentence of the lesson «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 7

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The cure is slow and simple: read every word, ask "what did it actually say?", then answer.

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**Who acts:** cure · **What happens:** be, read, ask, say, answer · **To what, where:** word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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 (cure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:7
# text = The cure is slow and simple: read every word, ask "what did it actually say?", then answer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	answer	answer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the cure |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the cure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive |  | every word |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · do-support | cure |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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**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:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:7`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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