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title: Calling a teacher "Mum" or "Dad" by accident happens to almost every… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics
description: Calling a teacher "Mum" or "Dad" by accident happens to almost everyone, so you laugh it off and carry on. Who acts: Calling, you. A sentence of the lesson «Greeting adults and teachers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 16

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Calling a teacher "Mum" or "Dad" by accident happens to almost everyone, so you laugh it off and carry on.

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**Who acts:** Calling, you · **What happens:** call, happen, laugh off, carry on · **To what, where:** teacher, accident · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting adults and teachers» 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 (Calling, you), 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:16
# text = Calling a teacher "Mum" or "Dad" by accident happens to almost everyone, so you laugh it off and carry on.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **call** | gerund |  | a teacher |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme mum=Result |
| 2 | **happen** | present | Calling |  |  |  |  | by accident; to everyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by accident=Location |
| 3 | **laugh off** | present | you | accident |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **carry on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: 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:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.lesson:16`.

**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): R5-strong ×2. **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.

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