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title: You can even disagree with an adult, if you are polite and explain y… — Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark · tree and pragmatics
description: You can even disagree with an adult, if you are polite and explain your reason calmly; respectful words make adults listen. Who acts: You, respectful words, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 1

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You can even disagree with an adult, if you are polite and explain your reason calmly; respectful words make adults listen.

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**Who acts:** You, respectful words, adults · **What happens:** disagree, be, explain, make, listen · **To what, where:** reason, adults

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday 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 (You, respectful words, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.lesson:1
# text = You can even disagree with an adult, if you are polite and explain your reason calmly; respectful words make adults listen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.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): no change
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **disagree** | can | You |  |  |  |  | with a adult | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with adult=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your reason |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | present | respectful words | adults |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **listen** | infinitive | adults *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.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): no change. **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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