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title: If a classmate has no lunch, tell a teacher quietly so the school ca… — Marks, group work, help at school and learning n… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a classmate has no lunch, tell a teacher quietly so the school can help without embarrassing them; many schools offer free school meals. Who acts: classmate, you, school, many schools. A sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» of the everyday course of M
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# Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills, sentence 14

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If a classmate has no lunch, tell a teacher quietly so the school can help without embarrassing them; many schools offer free school meals.

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**Who acts:** classmate, you, school, many schools · **What happens:** have, tell, help, embarrass, offer · **To what, where:** lunch, teacher, teachers, free school meals · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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 (classmate, you, school, many schools), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:14
# text = If a classmate has no lunch, tell a teacher quietly so the school can help without embarrassing them; many schools offer free school meals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.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	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	embarrassing	embarrass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
24	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod
25	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a classmate | no lunch |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a teacher |  |  | quietly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 3 | **help** | can | the school |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **embarrass** | gerund | the school *not said here* | teachers *= teacher* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 5 | **offer** | present | many schools | free school meals |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent meal=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:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:14`.

**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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