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title: If you cannot fall asleep, you lie quietly, breathe slowly or read a… — Sharing, sleep and safe food · tree and pragmatics
description: If you cannot fall asleep, you lie quietly, breathe slowly or read a calm book. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sharing, sleep and safe food, sentence 9

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If you cannot fall asleep, you lie quietly, breathe slowly or read a calm book.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not fall, lie, breathe, read · **To what, where:** calm book

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing, sleep and safe food» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:9
# text = If you cannot fall asleep, you lie quietly, breathe slowly or read a calm book.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.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 ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
10	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
15	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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** **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | present | you |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **breathe** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **read** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a calm book |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

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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:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:9`.

**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 ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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