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title: The two steps are: switch off or walk away, then tell a trusted grow… — Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and pare… · tree and pragmatics
description: The two steps are: switch off or walk away, then tell a trusted grown-up. A sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 11

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The two steps are: switch off or walk away, then tell a trusted grown-up.

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**What happens:** be, switch off, walk away, tell, trust · **To what, where:** two steps, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» of the adult life 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:adult-life:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:11
# text = The two steps are: switch off or walk away, then tell a trusted grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.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, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
6	switch	switch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
16	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- 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 a** | present |  | the two steps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **switch off** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **walk away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | grown |  |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient |
| 5 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:adult-life:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:11`.

**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, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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