--- title: If you are new and have nobody to sit with, tell a teacher or dinner… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics description: If you are new and have nobody to sit with, tell a teacher or dinner lady; they can help you find a group. Who acts: you, friends. A sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» 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/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/29/) [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/) / [The new kid and the first day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/) / 29 # The new kid and the first day, sentence 29 If you are new and have nobody to sit with, tell a teacher or dinner lady; they can help you find a group. **Who acts:** you, friends · **What happens:** be, have, sit, tell, help, find · **To what, where:** nobody, teacher, you, group · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» 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, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:29 # text = If you are new and have nobody to sit with, tell a teacher or dinner lady; they can help you find a group. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 9 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | new *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | you *not said here* | nobody | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient | | 3 | **sit** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | nobody *not said here* | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a teacher or dinner lady | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 5 | **help** | can | friends *= friend* | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **find** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a group | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Topic | 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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:29`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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: [The new kid and the first day, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/28/) - next →: [The new kid and the first day, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/)