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title: You can choose your own clothes or haircut by discussing it with you… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: You can choose your own clothes or haircut by discussing it with your parents, within family rules. Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 12

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You can choose your own clothes or haircut by discussing it with your parents, within family rules.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** choose, discuss · **To what, where:** own clothes, haircut

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:12
# text = You can choose your own clothes or haircut by discussing it with your parents, within family rules.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.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 ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	haircut	haircut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	discussing	discuss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- 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 | **choose** | can | You | your own clothes or haircut |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | gerund | You *not said here* | haircut |  |  |  | with your parents; within family rules | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent it=Topic with parent=Co-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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:12`.

**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 ×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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