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title: When a teacher tells you off, you listen, say sorry if you were wron… — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: When a teacher tells you off, you listen, say sorry if you were wrong and do not answer back rudely. Who acts: teacher, you. 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 8

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When a teacher tells you off, you listen, say sorry if you were wrong and do not answer back rudely.

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**Who acts:** teacher, you · **What happens:** tell off, listen, say, be, not answer back · **To what, where:** you · **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 (teacher, you), 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:8
# text = When a teacher tells you off, you listen, say sorry if you were wrong and do not answer back rudely.
# 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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | present | a teacher |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **listen** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **answer back** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rudely *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:8`.

**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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