--- title: If a teacher gets cross, step back and say sorry for the tone; tell… — When the teacher gets it wrong · tree and pragmatics description: If a teacher gets cross, step back and say sorry for the tone; tell a parent calmly at home. Who acts: teacher, cross, you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/5/) [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/) / [When the teacher gets it wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/) / 5 # When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 5 If a teacher gets cross, step back and say sorry for the tone; tell a parent calmly at home. **Who acts:** teacher, cross, you · **What happens:** get, step back, say, tell · **To what, where:** cross, parent, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, cross, you), 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:5 # text = If a teacher gets cross, step back and say sorry for the tone; tell a parent calmly at home. # 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): R1-cc-next ×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 16 advcl _ _ 5 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 step step VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 10 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **step back** | infinitive | cross *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | cross *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a parent | home | | calmly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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: [When the teacher gets it wrong, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/4/) - next →: [When the teacher gets it wrong, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/)