--- title: Be patient with a classmate who is still learning English: speak slo… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics description: Be patient with a classmate who is still learning English: speak slowly, use gestures and pictures, and each week they will understand more. Who acts: you, classmate, gestures. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, classmate, gestures), 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:2 # text = Be patient with a classmate who is still learning English: speak slowly, use gestures and pictures, and each week they will understand more. # 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 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 2 cop _ _ 2 patient patient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 still still ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 13 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 16 gestures gesture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | with a classmate; patient *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** | present · progressive | a classmate | English | | | still | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | | | | | | slowly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **use** | infinitive | | gestures and pictures | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gesture=Patient | | 5 | **understand** | future | gestures *= gesture* | more | | | week | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Classroom rules and homework, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/1/) - next →: [Classroom rules and homework, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/)