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title: When their cultures are talked about, listen and learn. — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: When their cultures are talked about, listen and learn. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 6

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When their cultures are talked about, listen and learn.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** talk about, listen, learn · **To what, where:** cultures

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:6
# text = When their cultures are talked about, listen and learn.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 227-older-people-and-disabilities.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk about** | present · passive |  | people's cultures |  |  |  | about *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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:227-older-people-and-disabilities.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): R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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