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title: If someone has no lunch or very little, tell a teacher quietly rathe… — Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with… · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone has no lunch or very little, tell a teacher quietly rather than helping in a way that embarrasses them. Who acts: someone, you, way. A sentence of the lesson «Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, an
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# Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, and festivals, sentence 8

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If someone has no lunch or very little, tell a teacher quietly rather than helping in a way that embarrasses them.

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**Who acts:** someone, you, way · **What happens:** have, tell, help, embarrass · **To what, where:** lunch, teacher, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, and festivals» 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 (someone, you, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:330-lunch-help-cooking-allowance-southern-seasons-jobs-festivals.lesson:8
# text = If someone has no lunch or very little, tell a teacher quietly rather than helping in a way that embarrasses them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 330-lunch-help-cooking-allowance-southern-seasons-jobs-festivals.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	_
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
14	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	embarrasses	embarrass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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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 | someone | 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** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | a way |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **embarrass** | present | a way | teacher |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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:330-lunch-help-cooking-allowance-southern-seasons-jobs-festivals.lesson:8`.

**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, 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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