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title: What are the reasons?" and leave the person's age, looks, habits and… — Check the claim, not the person · tree and pragmatics
description: What are the reasons?" and leave the person's age, looks, habits and friends out of it. A sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Check the claim, not the person, sentence 10

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What are the reasons?" and leave the person's age, looks, habits and friends out of it.

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**What happens:** be, leave · **To what, where:** reasons, age

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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: 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:10
# text = What are the reasons?" and leave the person's age, looks, habits and friends out of it.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **is a** | present |  | the reasons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the person's age and looks and habits and friends |  |  |  | out person | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent age=Theme out it=Location |

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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:10`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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/).

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