--- title: If someone takes your ball, you ask for it back politely, then tell… — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics description: If someone takes your ball, you ask for it back politely, then tell a teacher; grabbing it back starts fights. Who acts: someone, you, grabbing. 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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 (someone, you, grabbing), 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:15 # text = If someone takes your ball, you ask for it back politely, then tell a teacher; grabbing it back starts fights. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 politely politely ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 grabbing grab VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 23 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | your ball | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | | | | | for ball; politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | a teacher | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 4 | **grab back** | gerund | | ball | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **start** | present | grabbing | fights | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:15`. **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: [Teachers, visitors and the playground, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/14/) - next →: [Teachers, visitors and the playground, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/)