--- title: Even perfect steps give a wrong answer if the starting rule is false… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics description: Even perfect steps give a wrong answer if the starting rule is false: "if the dog barks, someone's at the door" fails the day he barks at a squirrel. Who acts: perfect steps, starting rule, dog. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perfect steps, starting rule, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:7 # text = Even perfect steps give a wrong answer if the starting rule is false: "if the dog barks, someone's at the door" fails the day he barks at a squirrel. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 184-if-then-and-its-traps.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 2 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 starting starting NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 18 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound 19 barks bark VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 csubj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 conj _ _ 22 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 fails fail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 barks bark VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | perfect steps | a wrong answer | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the starting rule | | | | | false *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bark** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the dog | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | the door | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fail** | present | perfect steps *not said here* | | | | day | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bark** | present | dog | the day *not said here* | | | | at a squirrel | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent day=Theme at squirrel=Stimulus | 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. **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:184-if-then-and-its-traps.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: ["If... then..." and its traps, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/6/) - next →: ["If... then..." and its traps, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/)