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title: There is no rule that a class can leave if the teacher is 15 minutes… — School legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no rule that a class can leave if the teacher is 15 minutes late; you should stay and send someone to tell the office. Who acts: rule, class, teacher, you. A sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# School legends, sentence 8

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There is no rule that a class can leave if the teacher is 15 minutes late; you should stay and send someone to tell the office.

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**Who acts:** rule, class, teacher, you · **What happens:** be, leave, stay, send, tell · **To what, where:** rule, someone, office · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rule, class, teacher, you), 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:8
# text = There is no rule that a class can leave if the teacher is 15 minutes late; you should stay and send someone to tell the office.
# 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): no change
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no rule |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | can | a class | no rule |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the teacher |  |  |  | minute | late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **send** | infinitive | you *not said here* | someone |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the office |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent office=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:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:8`.

**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.

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