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title: The police can give young people a warning for antisocial behaviour,… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics
description: The police can give young people a warning for antisocial behaviour, and parents may have to pay for damage. Who acts: police, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 24

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The police can give young people a warning for antisocial behaviour, and parents may have to pay for damage.

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**Who acts:** police, parents · **What happens:** give, have, pay · **To what, where:** warning, young people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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 (police, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:24
# text = The police can give young people a warning for antisocial behaviour, and parents may have to pay for damage.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	antisocial	antisocial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | can | the police | a warning | young people |  |  | for antisocial behaviour | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent people=Recipient warning=Theme for behaviour=Asset |
| 2 | **have** | may | parents |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for damage | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for damage=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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:24`.

**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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