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title: If a teacher gets cross, it is wise to step back for now and tell a… — When the teacher gets it wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: If a teacher gets cross, it is wise to step back for now and tell a parent calmly later. Who acts: teacher. A sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 18

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If a teacher gets cross, it is wise to step back for now and tell a parent calmly later.

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**Who acts:** teacher · **What happens:** get, be, step back, tell · **To what, where:** cross, parent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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 (teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:18
# text = If a teacher gets cross, it is wise to step back for now and tell a parent calmly later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a teacher | cross |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **step back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a parent |  |  | calmly, late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:18`.

**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/).

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