--- title: If you cannot see the board clearly at school, you tell a teacher an… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics description: If you cannot see the board clearly at school, you tell a teacher and a parent, because you may need an eye test and perhaps glasses. Who acts: you. 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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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:1 # text = If you cannot see the board clearly at school, you tell a teacher and a parent, because you may need an eye test and perhaps glasses. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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 ×3, R6-punct-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 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | the board | | school | | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | a teacher and a parent | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 3 | **need** | may | you | a eye test and glasses | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot test=Theme | 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:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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: [Growing, seeing and hearing, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/0/) - next →: [Growing, seeing and hearing, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/)