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title: If you do not want to go to school, you tell a parent honestly why,… — Getting ready for school and the school day · tree and pragmatics
description: If you do not want to go to school, you tell a parent honestly why, because a real problem can only be fixed if an adult knows. Who acts: you, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 6

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If you do not want to go to school, you tell a parent honestly why, because a real problem can only be fixed if an adult knows.

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**Who acts:** you, adult · **What happens:** not want, go, tell, fix, know · **To what, where:** school, parent, real problem · **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 (you, adult), 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:6
# text = If you do not want to go to school, you tell a parent honestly why, because a real problem can only be fixed if an adult knows.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
16	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **not** **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you |  | a parent |  |  | honestly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 4 | **fix** | can · passive |  | a real problem |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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: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 ×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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