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title: If you spill a drink, you tell a lunch supervisor and help clean it… — The lunchroom and school trips · tree and pragmatics
description: If you spill a drink, you tell a lunch supervisor and help clean it up, because wet floors make people slip. Who acts: you, wet floors, people. A sentence of the lesson «The lunchroom and school trips» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The lunchroom and school trips, sentence 8

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If you spill a drink, you tell a lunch supervisor and help clean it up, because wet floors make people slip.

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**Who acts:** you, wet floors, people · **What happens:** spill, tell, help, clean up, make, slip · **To what, where:** drink, lunch supervisor, supervisor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The lunchroom and school trips» 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 (you, wet floors, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips.lesson:8
# text = If you spill a drink, you tell a lunch supervisor and help clean it up, because wet floors make people slip.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 258-lunchroom-and-school-trips.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spill	spill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	supervisor	supervisor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **spill** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a drink |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drink=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | a lunch supervisor |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent supervisor=Recipient |
| 3 | **help** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **clean up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | supervisor |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | present | wet floors |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **slip** | infinitive | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips.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): R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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