--- title: There is no law that closes schools after a certain amount of snow;… — School legends · tree and pragmatics description: There is no law that closes schools after a certain amount of snow; the head teacher decides, based on safety. Who acts: law, head teacher. A sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths 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/myths/24-school-legends/9/) [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/) / 9 # School legends, sentence 9 There is no law that closes schools after a certain amount of snow; the head teacher decides, based on safety. **Who acts:** law, head teacher · **What happens:** be, close, decide, base, amount · **To what, where:** schools, safety, snow 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 (law, head teacher), 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:9 # text = There is no law that closes schools after a certain amount of snow; the head teacher decides, based on safety. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 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 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **be** | present | no law | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **close** | present | no law | schools | | | after a certain amount of snow | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Patient | | 3 | **decide** | present | the head teacher | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **base** | participle | the head teacher *not said here* | | | safety | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on safety=Source | | 5 | **amount** | | | snow | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/8/) - next →: [School legends, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/)