--- title: If you are told off for something you did not do, you stay calm and… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics description: If you are told off for something you did not do, you stay calm and explain politely later, in private if possible, because a calm talk is more likely to be heard. Who acts: you, calm talk. 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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, calm talk), 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:9 # text = If you are told off for something you did not do, you stay calm and explain politely later, in private if possible, because a calm talk is more likely to be heard. # 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 _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obl _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 15 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 politely politely ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 32 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell off** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | you | | | | for something | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **do** | past · do-support | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stay** | present | you | | | | | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | a calm talk | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | a calm talk *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Classroom rules and homework, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/8/) - next →: [Classroom rules and homework, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/)