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title: So when someone answers an idea with "You're six, what would you kno… — Check the claim, not the person · tree and pragmatics
description: So when someone answers an idea with "You're six, what would you know?", "You don't even recycle at home" or "You're not my friend", they have dodged the idea and hit the person. Who acts: someone, You, they. A sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» of the world course of Mova's pr
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# Check the claim, not the person, sentence 1

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So when someone answers an idea with "You're six, what would you know?", "You don't even recycle at home" or "You're not my friend", they have dodged the idea and hit the person.

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**Who acts:** someone, You, they · **What happens:** answer, be, know, not recycle, not be, dodge · **To what, where:** idea, home, friend, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» 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 (someone, You, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:1
# text = So when someone answers an idea with "You're six, what would you know?", "You don't even recycle at home" or "You're not my friend", they have dodged the idea and hit the person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.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, R6-punct-agree ×3
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
21	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	recycle	recycle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
31	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	dodged	dodge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **answer** *speech: ask* | present | someone | a idea |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | with six | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **recycle** *in a quote* | present · do-support | You |  |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | my friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **dodge** | present · perfect | they | the idea |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent idea=Location |
| 7 | **hit** | infinitive | they *not said here* | the person |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme person=Co-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:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:1`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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