--- title: When the head teacher walks into the classroom, pupils stop talking… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics description: When the head teacher walks into the classroom, pupils stop talking and look up, and some schools ask them to stand. Who acts: head teacher, pupils, schools. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head teacher, pupils, schools), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.lesson:15 # text = When the head teacher walks into the classroom, pupils stop talking and look up, and some schools ask them to stand. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 classroom classroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | the head teacher | | | | | into the classroom *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into classroom=Result | | 2 | **stop** | present | pupils | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | pupils *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look up** | infinitive | pupils *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | some schools | | teacher | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **stand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some schools *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.lesson:15`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Greeting adults and teachers, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/14/) - next →: [Greeting adults and teachers, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/)