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title: A calm, polite request with good reasons is more likely to be listen… — Parents' rules for big games · tree and pragmatics
description: A calm, polite request with good reasons is more likely to be listened to than nagging or sneaking. Who acts: calm polite request. A sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parents' rules for big games, sentence 35

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A calm, polite request with good reasons is more likely to be listened to than nagging or sneaking.

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**Who acts:** calm polite request · **What happens:** be, listen to, nag, sneak

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» 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 (calm polite request), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.lesson:35
# text = A calm, polite request with good reasons is more likely to be listened to than nagging or sneaking.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 404-parents-rules-for-big-games.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	nagging	nag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sneaking	sneak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **is** | present | a calm polite request with good reasons |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen to** | to-infinitive · passive | a calm polite request with good reasons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **nag** | gerund | a calm polite request with good reasons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sneak** | gerund | a calm polite request with good reasons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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.

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