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title: If a lesson is too easy, you can politely ask the teacher for a hard… — Boredom, excitement and pride · tree and pragmatics
description: If a lesson is too easy, you can politely ask the teacher for a harder challenge. Who acts: lesson, you. A sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Boredom, excitement and pride, sentence 9

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If a lesson is too easy, you can politely ask the teacher for a harder challenge.

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**Who acts:** lesson, you · **What happens:** be, ask · **To what, where:** teacher

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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 (lesson, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:9
# text = If a lesson is too easy, you can politely ask the teacher for a harder challenge.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a lesson |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | you |  | the teacher |  |  | for a harder challenge; politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |

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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:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:9`.

**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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