--- title: You do not have to wait 24 hours to report a missing person; tell th… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics description: You do not have to wait 24 hours to report a missing person; tell the police straight away. Who acts: You. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/12/) [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/) / [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/) / 12 # Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 12 You do not have to wait 24 hours to report a missing person; tell the police straight away. **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not have, wait, report, tell · **To what, where:** missing person, police · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (You), 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:12 # text = You do not have to wait 24 hours to report a missing person; tell the police straight away. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 report report VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 straight straight ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **report** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | a missing person | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | the police | | | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient | 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:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:12`. **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): 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: [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/10/) - next →: [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/)