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title: Many school rules exist so that adults always know where every child… — Getting ready for school and the school day · tree and pragmatics
description: Many school rules exist so that adults always know where every child is: answering the register, asking to go to the toilet, and going back to the office if nobody comes to pick you up. Who acts: Many school rules, adults, child, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the sch
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# Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 1

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Many school rules exist so that adults always know where every child is: answering the register, asking to go to the toilet, and going back to the office if nobody comes to pick you up.

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**Who acts:** Many school rules, adults, child, nobody · **What happens:** exist, know, be, answer, ask, go · **To what, where:** register, toilet, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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 (Many school rules, adults, child, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:1
# text = Many school rules exist so that adults always know where every child is: answering the register, asking to go to the toilet, and going back to the office if nobody comes to pick you up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	register	register	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	34	nsubj	_	_
34	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:xcomp
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | Many school rules |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | adults |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | every child |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | every child *not said here* | the register |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent register=Eventuality |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | every child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | every child *not said here* |  |  | the toilet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **go back** | gerund | every child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |

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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:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.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): R7-rel-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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