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title: If you are too tired to finish homework, you stop, tell a parent, an… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are too tired to finish homework, you stop, tell a parent, and send the teacher a note. 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 17

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If you are too tired to finish homework, you stop, tell a parent, and send the teacher a note.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, finish, stop, tell, send · **To what, where:** homework, parent, note, teacher · **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:17
# text = If you are too tired to finish homework, you stop, tell a parent, and send the teacher a note.
# 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 ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	iobj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | homework |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality homework=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stop** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a parent |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 5 | **send** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a note | the teacher |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Destination note=Theme |

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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:17`.

**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 ×2. **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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