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title: When school calls a parent in, the parent may have to leave work and… — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics
description: When school calls a parent in, the parent may have to leave work and can lose pay. Who acts: school, parent. A sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jake and the head teacher, sentence 21

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When school calls a parent in, the parent may have to leave work and can lose pay.

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**Who acts:** school, parent · **What happens:** call in, have, leave, lose · **To what, where:** parent, work, pay

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» 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 (school, parent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:21
# text = When school calls a parent in, the parent may have to leave work and can lose pay.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **call in** *speech: assert* | present | school |  | a parent |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | may | the parent |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the parent *not said here* | work |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | can | the parent *not said here* | pay |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Eventuality |

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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:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:21`.

**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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