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title: With a classmate who speaks little English, you speak slowly, use ge… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics
description: With a classmate who speaks little English, you speak slowly, use gestures and pictures, and are patient. Who acts: you. 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 clause.
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# Classroom rules and homework, sentence 11

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With a classmate who speaks little English, you speak slowly, use gestures and pictures, and are patient.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** speak, use, be · **To what, where:** little English, gestures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you), 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:11
# text = With a classmate who speaks little English, you speak slowly, use gestures and pictures, and are patient.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	gestures	gesture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | present |  | little English |  |  |  | with a classmate | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | present | you *not said here* | gestures and pictures |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gesture=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | patient *property* | tree rules |

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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:11`.

**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): R8-pos-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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