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title: If you lose a library book, tell the librarian; you may need to pay… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics
description: If you lose a library book, tell the librarian; you may need to pay or replace it, and honesty lets the problem be fixed. Who acts: you, honesty, problem. A sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 21

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If you lose a library book, tell the librarian; you may need to pay or replace it, and honesty lets the problem be fixed.

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**Who acts:** you, honesty, problem · **What happens:** lose, tell, need, pay, replace, let · **To what, where:** library book, librarian, problem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» 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, honesty, problem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:21
# text = If you lose a library book, tell the librarian; you may need to pay or replace it, and honesty lets the problem be fixed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.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
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	librarian	librarian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl
28	.	.	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 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a library book |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the librarian |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent librarian=Recipient |
| 3 | **need** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **replace** | infinitive | you *not said here* | librarian |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **let** | present | honesty | the problem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fix** | infinitive · passive | the problem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:21`.

**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. **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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