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title: A classroom is shared by many people, so its rules are about respect… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics
description: A classroom is shared by many people, so its rules are about respect: ask before you borrow, keep your space tidy, do your class job well and use school devices only as allowed. Who acts: many people, rules, you, classroom. A sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» of the everyday cour
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# Classroom rules and homework, sentence 0

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A classroom is shared by many people, so its rules are about respect: ask before you borrow, keep your space tidy, do your class job well and use school devices only as allowed.

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**Who acts:** many people, rules, you, classroom, your · **What happens:** share, be, ask, borrow, keep, do · **To what, where:** classroom, space, class job, school devices

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» 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 people, rules, you, classroom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:0
# text = A classroom is shared by many people, so its rules are about respect: ask before you borrow, keep your space tidy, do your class job well and use school devices only as allowed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 254-classroom-rules-and-homework.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	borrow	borrow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
37	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:acl
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present · passive | many people | a classroom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | classroom's rules |  |  |  |  | about respect | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **borrow** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive |  | your space |  |  |  | tidy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | infinitive |  | your class job |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 7 | **use** | infinitive |  | school devices |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent device=Patient |
| 8 | **allow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 9 | **rule** |  | classroom |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **job** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: 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:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:0`.

**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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