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title: Schools only let children go with people their family has named, so… — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: Schools only let children go with people their family has named, so a stranger saying "your mum sent me" is a warning sign. Who acts: Schools, children, family, stranger. A sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Teachers, visitors and the playground, sentence 19

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Schools only let children go with people their family has named, so a stranger saying "your mum sent me" is a warning sign.

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**Who acts:** Schools, children, family, stranger, mum · **What happens:** let, go, name, say, send, be · **To what, where:** children, people, stranger, warning sign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Schools, children, family, stranger), 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:19
# text = Schools only let children go with people their family has named, so a stranger saying "your mum sent me" is a warning sign.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:iobj
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **let** | present | Schools | children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with people | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with people=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **name** | present · perfect | people's family | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **send** *in a quote* | past | your mum | a stranger *= stranger* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | a stranger | a warning sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:19`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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