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title: "I don't want to see that" and "That's not for me" are polite, firm… — Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and pare… · tree and pragmatics
description: "I don't want to see that" and "That's not for me" are polite, firm sentences you can always use, with friends or older children. Who acts: Parental controls, That, you. A sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» of the adult life course of Mova's primar
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# Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 19

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"I don't want to see that" and "That's not for me" are polite, firm sentences you can always use, with friends or older children.

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**Who acts:** Parental controls, That, you · **What happens:** not want, see, not be, be, use · **To what, where:** that, firm sentences · **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: who acts (Parental controls, That, you), 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:19
# text = "I don't want to see that" and "That's not for me" are polite, firm sentences you can always use, with friends or older children.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	csubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
12	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc
31	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Parental controls *= control* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Parental controls *= control* *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | for Parental controls *= control* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | can | you | firm sentences *not said here* |  |  |  | with friends or older children; always *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient |

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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:19`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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