--- title: To check one, ask a teacher, the school office or the person it happ… — School legends · tree and pragmatics description: To check one, ask a teacher, the school office or the person it happened to, and enjoy the spooky ones as stories, without teasing the younger kids who believe them. Who acts: you, it, younger kids. A sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/5/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [School legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/) / 5 # School legends, sentence 5 To check one, ask a teacher, the school office or the person it happened to, and enjoy the spooky ones as stories, without teasing the younger kids who believe them. **Who acts:** you, it, younger kids · **What happens:** check, ask, happen to, enjoy, tease, believe · **To what, where:** one, teacher, person, spooky ones, younger kids This is a sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths 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, it, younger kids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:5 # text = To check one, ask a teacher, the school office or the person it happened to, and enjoy the spooky ones as stories, without teasing the younger kids who believe them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 024-school-legends.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 iobj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl 17 to to ADP IN _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 enjoy enjoy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 spooky spooky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 without without SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 31 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a teacher and the school office or the person | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 3 | **happen to** | past | it | the person *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **enjoy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the spooky ones | | | | as stories | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | | 5 | **tease** | gerund | you *not said here* | the younger kids | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient | | 6 | **believe** | present | the younger kids | teacher | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [School legends, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/4/) - next →: [School legends, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/)