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title: If others mock someone's religion, festival or clothes, tell them to… — Respecting the festivals and traditions of class… · tree and pragmatics
description: If others mock someone's religion, festival or clothes, tell them to stop and tell a teacher. Who acts: others, you. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates, sentence 22

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If others mock someone's religion, festival or clothes, tell them to stop and tell a teacher.

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**Who acts:** others, you · **What happens:** mock, tell, stop · **To what, where:** religion, religions, teacher · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» 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 (others, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.lesson:22
# text = If others mock someone's religion, festival or clothes, tell them to stop and tell a teacher.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mock	mock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **mock** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | others | someone's religion and festival or clothes |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | religions *= religion* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 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 |

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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:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.lesson:22`.

**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): no change. **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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