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title: Good reasoning asks: where does the water or the heat come from, whe… — Clever reasoning about water and matter · tree and pragmatics
description: Good reasoning asks: where does the water or the heat come from, where does it go, and what would happen if things were different? Who acts: Good reasoning, water, things. A sentence of the lesson «Clever reasoning about water and matter» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Clever reasoning about water and matter, sentence 5

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Good reasoning asks: where does the water or the heat come from, where does it go, and what would happen if things were different?

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**Who acts:** Good reasoning, water, things · **What happens:** ask, come, go, happen, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clever reasoning about water and matter» 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 (Good reasoning, water, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:020-reasoning-water-and-matter.lesson:5
# text = Good reasoning asks: where does the water or the heat come from, where does it go, and what would happen if things were different?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 020-reasoning-water-and-matter.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Good reasoning |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | present · do-support | the water or the heat |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present · do-support | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | things |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |

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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:020-reasoning-water-and-matter.lesson:5`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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