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title: If you cannot see the board at school, tell a teacher and a parent,… — Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns… · tree and pragmatics
description: If you cannot see the board at school, tell a teacher and a parent, because you may need an eye test. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses, sentence 18

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If you cannot see the board at school, tell a teacher and a parent, because you may need an eye test.

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

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses» 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:318-water-cuts-bruises-bumps-burns-growing-and-seeing.lesson:18
# text = If you cannot see the board at school, tell a teacher and a parent, because you may need an eye test.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 318-water-cuts-bruises-bumps-burns-growing-and-seeing.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	_	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	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | the board |  | school |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus |
| 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.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 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:318-water-cuts-bruises-bumps-burns-growing-and-seeing.lesson:18`.

**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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