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title: You scan or sign a library book out and return it by the due date, b… — The library and books · tree and pragmatics
description: You scan or sign a library book out and return it by the due date, because others are waiting for it. Who acts: You, others. A sentence of the lesson «The library and books» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The library and books, sentence 5

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You scan or sign a library book out and return it by the due date, because others are waiting for it.

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**Who acts:** You, others · **What happens:** scan, sign out, return, wait · **To what, where:** library book, book

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The library and books» 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, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:259-library-and-books.lesson:5
# text = You scan or sign a library book out and return it by the due date, because others are waiting for it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 259-library-and-books.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scan	scan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sign	sign	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **scan** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sign out** | present | You *not said here* | a library book |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Destination |
| 3 | **return** | present | You *not said here* | book |  |  |  | by the due date | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | present · progressive | others |  |  |  |  | for book | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:259-library-and-books.lesson:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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