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title: Follow the school's rule about phones, usually switched off in your… — Breakfast, the school day and honest homework · tree and pragmatics
description: Follow the school's rule about phones, usually switched off in your bag or handed in, because phones distract from lessons. Who acts: you, phones, school. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Breakfast, the school day and honest homework, sentence 13

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Follow the school's rule about phones, usually switched off in your bag or handed in, because phones distract from lessons.

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**Who acts:** you, phones, school · **What happens:** follow, switch off, hand in, distract, rule · **To what, where:** rule, bag, lessons

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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 (you, phones, school), 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:13
# text = Follow the school's rule about phones, usually switched off in your bag or handed in, because phones distract from lessons.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
17	in	in	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	distract	distract	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* | the school's rule |  |  |  | about phones | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rule=Theme about phone=Trajectory |
| 2 | **switch off** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  | your bag |  | usually *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hand in** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **distract** | present | phones |  |  | lessons |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **rule** |  | the school |  |  |  |  | about phones | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl |

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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:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:13`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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