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title: A class job, like handing out books, is done carefully and on time,… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics
description: A class job, like handing out books, is done carefully and on time, because the whole class waits on it. Who acts: class job, whole class. A sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Classroom rules and homework, sentence 10

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A class job, like handing out books, is done carefully and on time, because the whole class waits on it.

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**Who acts:** class job, whole class · **What happens:** hand out, do, wait · **To what, where:** books, class job, job

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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 (class job, whole class), 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:10
# text = A class job, like handing out books, is done carefully and on time, because the whole class waits on it.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **hand out** | gerund | a class job *not said here* | books |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present · passive |  | a class job |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wait** | present | the whole class |  |  | job |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location |

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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:10`.

**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): no change. **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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