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title: Getting caught is normal; laugh at the trick, not at the person, and… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics
description: Getting caught is normal; laugh at the trick, not at the person, and remember it next time. Who acts: Getting. 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 8

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Getting caught is normal; laugh at the trick, not at the person, and remember it next time.

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**Who acts:** Getting · **What happens:** get, catch, be, laugh, remember · **To what, where:** trick, person

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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 (Getting), 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:8
# text = Getting caught is normal; laugh at the trick, not at the person, and remember it next time.
# 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	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Getting |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **laugh** | infinitive |  |  |  | the trick and the person |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **remember** | infinitive |  | person |  |  | time |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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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