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title: And the rules of a place, like a pool's eating rule, still count eve… — When the teacher gets it wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: And the rules of a place, like a pool's eating rule, still count even when the reason given is a myth. Who acts: rules, reason, place, pool. 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 cla
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# When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 6

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And the rules of a place, like a pool's eating rule, still count even when the reason given is a myth.

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**Who acts:** rules, reason, place, pool · **What happens:** count, give, be, rule · **To what, where:** reason, myth

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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 (rules, reason, place, pool), 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:6
# text = And the rules of a place, like a pool's eating rule, still count even when the reason given is a myth.
# 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): no change
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | the rules of a place like a pool's eating rule |  |  |  | still |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the reason | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rule** |  | a place like a pool's eating rule |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **rule** |  | a pool |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:6`.

**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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