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title: You do not have to answer a stranger's personal questions; if you fe… — Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing… · tree and pragmatics
description: You do not have to answer a stranger's personal questions; if you feel unsafe, move near the driver or another adult. Who acts: You, stranger. A sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things, sentence 14

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You do not have to answer a stranger's personal questions; if you feel unsafe, move near the driver or another adult.

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**Who acts:** You, stranger · **What happens:** not have, answer, feel, move, question · **To what, where:** personal questions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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, stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:14
# text = You do not have to answer a stranger's personal questions; if you feel unsafe, move near the driver or another adult.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 225-public-transport-and-borrowing.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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
16	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
18	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** **have** | present · do-support | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | a stranger's personal questions |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
| 3 | **feel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | unsafe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **move** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | near the driver or another adult | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near driver=Trajectory |
| 5 | **question** |  | a stranger |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:14`.

**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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