--- title: Telling a teacher honestly about forgotten homework is better than m… — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a teacher honestly about forgotten homework is better than making up an excuse. Who acts: Telling. A sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Homework first?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/) / 25 # Homework first?, sentence 25 Telling a teacher honestly about forgotten homework is better than making up an excuse. **Who acts:** Telling · **What happens:** tell, forget, be, make up · **To what, where:** teacher, excuse · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» 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 (Telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:419-homework-first.lesson:25 # text = Telling a teacher honestly about forgotten homework is better than making up an excuse. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 419-homework-first.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 ×1 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 iobj _ _ 4 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 10 than than SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a teacher | | | about forgotten homework; honestly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient about homework=Topic | | 2 | **forget** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | Telling | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make up** | gerund | Telling *not said here* | a excuse | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme excuse=Pivot | 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. **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:419-homework-first.lesson:25`. **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 ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Homework first?, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/24/) - next →: [Homework first?, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/)