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title: Your answer's 10p too expensive." Laugh at the answer, check it, try… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Your answer's 10p too expensive." Laugh at the answer, check it, try again. Who acts: answer, you, 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 8

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Your answer's 10p too expensive." Laugh at the answer, check it, try again.

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**Who acts:** answer, you, Your · **What happens:** be, laugh, check, try, answer · **To what, where:** answer, p · **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 (answer, you, 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:8
# text = Your answer's 10p too expensive." Laugh at the answer, check it, try again.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	"	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
15	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your answer |  |  |  |  | 10 p *obl:unmarked*; expensive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the answer |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **check** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | p |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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