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title: Schools take a register every day, and an absence is usually followe… — School legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Schools take a register every day, and an absence is usually followed up quickly by phone calls, letters or visits, so a pupil missing a whole year would be noticed. Who acts: Schools, phone calls, pupil. A sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its
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# School legends, sentence 6

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Schools take a register every day, and an absence is usually followed up quickly by phone calls, letters or visits, so a pupil missing a whole year would be noticed.

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**Who acts:** Schools, phone calls, pupil · **What happens:** take, follow up, miss, notice · **To what, where:** register, absence, pupil

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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 (Schools, phone calls, pupil), 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:6
# text = Schools take a register every day, and an absence is usually followed up quickly by phone calls, letters or visits, so a pupil missing a whole year would be noticed.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	register	register	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **take** | present | Schools | a register |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent register=Theme |
| 2 | **follow up** | present · passive | phone calls and letters or visits | a absence |  |  |  | quickly, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **miss** | gerund | a pupil *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **notice** | would · passive |  | a pupil |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:6`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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