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title: The habit that saves you takes ten seconds: put your answer back int… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: The habit that saves you takes ten seconds: put your answer back into the story and see whether it fits. Who acts: habit, your. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 4

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The habit that saves you takes ten seconds: put your answer back into the story and see whether it fits.

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**Who acts:** habit, your · **What happens:** save, take, put back, see, fit, answer · **To what, where:** you, answer, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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 (habit, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:4
# text = The habit that saves you takes ten seconds: put your answer back into the story and see whether it fits.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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	2	det	_	_
2	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **save** | present | the habit | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | the habit |  |  |  | second |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put back** | infinitive |  | your answer |  | the story |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent answer=Goal |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fit** | present | habit |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **answer** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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): 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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