--- title: You ask before borrowing a classmate's pencil or rubber and give it… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics description: You ask before borrowing a classmate's pencil or rubber and give it back when you finish. 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. --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Classroom rules and homework, sentence 6 You ask before borrowing a classmate's pencil or rubber and give it back when you finish. **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** ask, borrow, give back, finish · **To what, where:** pencil, rubber 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:6 # text = You ask before borrowing a classmate's pencil or rubber and give it back when you finish. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 borrowing borrow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 2 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:iobj 14 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 when when SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 finish finish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | You | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **borrow** | gerund | You *not said here* | a classmate's pencil or rubber | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme | | 3 | **give back** | infinitive | You *not said here* | rubber | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **finish** | present | you | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:6`. **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): 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/5/) - next →: [Classroom rules and homework, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/)