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title: "Turn it off and on again!" says Nan, and the telly works. — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics
description: "Turn it off and on again!" says Nan, and the telly works. Who acts: Nan, telly. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 0

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"Turn it off and on again!" says Nan, and the telly works.

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**Who acts:** Nan, telly · **What happens:** turn off, say, work · **To what, where:** it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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 (Nan, telly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:0
# text = "Turn it off and on again!" says Nan, and the telly works.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	telly	telly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | it |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Nan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **work** | present | the telly |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:0`.

**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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