--- title: If a rule has a good reason, like talking together at dinner, it app… — The brother who never does anything wrong: doubl… · tree and pragmatics description: If a rule has a good reason, like talking together at dinner, it applies to everyone; a real exception, like an emergency, should be said in advance for everyone. Who acts: rule, good reason. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rule, good reason), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:17 # text = If a rule has a good reason, like talking together at dinner, it applies to everyone; a real exception, like an emergency, should be said in advance for everyone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 like like SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 11 together together ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 applies apply VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 exception exception NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 35 . . 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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a rule | a good reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | a good reason *not said here* | | | dinner | | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **apply** | present | rule | | | | | to everyone | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | should · passive | | a real exception like a emergency | | advance | | for everyone | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in advance=Manner | 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:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:17`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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. 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