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title: Skipping homework once without being asked does not mean it is safe… — Chores you skipped · tree and pragmatics
description: Skipping homework once without being asked does not mean it is safe to skip it again. Who acts: Skipping. A sentence of the lesson «Chores you skipped» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Chores you skipped, sentence 19

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Skipping homework once without being asked does not mean it is safe to skip it again.

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**Who acts:** Skipping · **What happens:** skip, ask, not mean, be · **To what, where:** homework · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores you skipped» 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 (Skipping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped.lesson:19
# text = Skipping homework once without being asked does not mean it is safe to skip it again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 350-chores-you-skipped.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 ×2
1	Skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
2	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	skip	skip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	csubj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **skip** | gerund |  | homework |  |  |  | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Skipping |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **skip** | to-infinitive |  | Homework |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:350-chores-you-skipped.lesson:19`.

**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 ×2. **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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