--- title: If homework always takes far too long, a parent can talk to the teac… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics description: If homework always takes far too long, a parent can talk to the teacher, who may adjust it. Who acts: homework, parent, teacher. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Classroom rules and homework](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/) / 18 # Classroom rules and homework, sentence 18 If homework always takes far too long, a parent can talk to the teacher, who may adjust it. **Who acts:** homework, parent, teacher · **What happens:** take, talk, adjust · **To what, where:** Homework 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 (homework, parent, teacher), 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:18 # text = If homework always takes far too long, a parent can talk to the teacher, who may adjust 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 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 always always ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 adjust adjust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | homework | | | | | always, long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **talk** | can | a parent | | | | | to the teacher | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to teacher=Co-Agent | | 3 | **adjust** | may | the teacher | Homework | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. **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:18`. **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/). - ← previous: [Classroom rules and homework, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/17/) - next →: [Classroom rules and homework, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/)