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title: If nobody comes to pick you up, go back into the school office and t… — Breakfast, the school day and honest homework · tree and pragmatics
description: If nobody comes to pick you up, go back into the school office and tell a teacher; never walk off or accept a lift from someone you were not told about. Who acts: nobody, you. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Breakfast, the school day and honest homework, sentence 12

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If nobody comes to pick you up, go back into the school office and tell a teacher; never walk off or accept a lift from someone you were not told about.

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**Who acts:** nobody, you · **What happens:** come, pick up, go back, tell, not walk off, accept · **To what, where:** you, school office, teacher, lift, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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 (nobody, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:12
# text = If nobody comes to pick you up, go back into the school office and tell a teacher; never walk off or accept a lift from someone you were not told about.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.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
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	lift	lift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obl	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 3 | **go back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the school office |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **walk off** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **accept** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a lift |  | someone |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lift=Theme from someone=Source |
| 7 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | you |  |  |  | about *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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**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. **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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