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title: If a library book is damaged, you tell the librarian when you return… — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics
description: If a library book is damaged, you tell the librarian when you return it. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Quiet places and solemn moments, sentence 6

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If a library book is damaged, you tell the librarian when you return it.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** damage, tell, return · **To what, where:** library book, librarian · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:6
# text = If a library book is damaged, you tell the librarian when you return it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	librarian	librarian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **damage** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | a library book |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | the librarian |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent librarian=Recipient |
| 3 | **return** | present | you | librarian |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:6`.

**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): no change. **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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