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title: If nobody comes to pick you up, you go back to the school office and… — Getting ready for school and the school day · tree and pragmatics
description: If nobody comes to pick you up, you go back to the school office and tell a teacher; you never accept a lift you were not told about. Who acts: nobody, you, lift. A sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 14

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If nobody comes to pick you up, you go back to the school office and tell a teacher; you never accept a lift you were not told about.

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**Who acts:** nobody, you, lift · **What happens:** come, pick up, go back, tell, not accept, not tell · **To what, where:** you, teacher, lift · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nobody, you, lift), 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:14
# text = If nobody comes to pick you up, you go back to the school office and tell a teacher; you never accept a lift you were not told about.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	accept	accept	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lift	lift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 3 | **go back** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **accept** | present | you | a lift |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lift=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | a lift *not said here* | you |  |  |  | about *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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