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title: "If it's sunny, we'll go to the park" says nothing about rainy days,… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics
description: "If it's sunny, we'll go to the park" says nothing about rainy days, so going anyway is not breaking the promise. Who acts: shape, we, going. A sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# "If... then..." and its traps, sentence 16

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"If it's sunny, we'll go to the park" says nothing about rainy days, so going anyway is not breaking the promise.

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**Who acts:** shape, we, going · **What happens:** be, go, say, not break · **To what, where:** park, nothing, promise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» of the world 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 (shape, we, going), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:16
# text = "If it's sunny, we'll go to the park" says nothing about rainy days, so going anyway is not breaking the promise.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 184-if-then-and-its-traps.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
22	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | shape |  |  |  |  | sunny *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  | the park |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to park=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | nothing |  |  | about rainy days |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **break** | present · progressive | going | the promise |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient |

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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:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:16`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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