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title: If you cannot read the board, tell a teacher and a parent: you may n… — Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and… · tree and pragmatics
description: If you cannot read the board, tell a teacher and a parent: you may need an eye test. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight, sentence 10

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If you cannot read the board, tell a teacher and a parent: you may need an eye test.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not read, tell, need · **To what, where:** board, teacher, eye test · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:290-first-aid-water-and-growing-up.lesson:10
# text = If you cannot read the board, tell a teacher and a parent: you may need an eye test.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 290-first-aid-water-and-growing-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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **read** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | the board |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a teacher and a parent |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **need** | may | you | a eye test |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot test=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:290-first-aid-water-and-growing-up.lesson:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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