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title: Arguments about rules are avoided by agreeing the rules before start… — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: Arguments about rules are avoided by agreeing the rules before starting, or by using rock, paper, scissors. A sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Teachers, visitors and the playground, sentence 12

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Arguments about rules are avoided by agreeing the rules before starting, or by using rock, paper, scissors.

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**What happens:** avoid, agree, start, use · **To what, where:** Arguments, rules, rock

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:12
# text = Arguments about rules are avoided by agreeing the rules before starting, or by using rock, paper, scissors.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 257-school-adults-and-the-playground.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	Arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	agreeing	agree	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | present · passive |  | Arguments about rules |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund |  | the rules |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent rule=Topic |
| 3 | **start** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **use** | gerund |  | rock and paper and scissors |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient |

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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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:12`.

**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/).

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