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title: You can say «I don't want to play that» without needing a rule as an… — What the numbers on the box mean · tree and pragmatics
description: You can say «I don't want to play that» without needing a rule as an excuse. Who acts: You, I. A sentence of the lesson «What the numbers on the box mean» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What the numbers on the box mean, sentence 34

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You can say «I don't want to play that» without needing a rule as an excuse.

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** say, not want, play, need · **To what, where:** that, rule · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What the numbers on the box mean» 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, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.lesson:34
# text = You can say «I don't want to play that» without needing a rule as an excuse.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	needing	need	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **play** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | gerund | You *not said here* | a rule |  |  |  | as a excuse | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rule=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:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.lesson:34`.

**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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