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title: If a teacher makes a mistake on the board, you politely put up your… — Tests, exams and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: If a teacher makes a mistake on the board, you politely put up your hand and say you think there may be an error. Who acts: teacher, you, error. A sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Tests, exams and mistakes, sentence 14

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If a teacher makes a mistake on the board, you politely put up your hand and say you think there may be an error.

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**Who acts:** teacher, you, error · **What happens:** make, put up, say, think, be · **To what, where:** mistake, board, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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 (teacher, you, error), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:14
# text = If a teacher makes a mistake on the board, you politely put up your hand and say you think there may be an error.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:expl
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:aux
23	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:ccomp
26	.	.	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 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a teacher | a mistake |  | the board |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product |
| 2 | **put up** | present | you | your hand |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | may | a error |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:14`.

**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 ×4, R8-pos-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/).

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