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title: "If you are under 12, you must wear armbands" only talks about under… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics
description: "If you are under 12, you must wear armbands" only talks about under-12s; older swimmers may still choose to wear them. Who acts: you, older swimmers. 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 
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# "If... then..." and its traps, sentence 20

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"If you are under 12, you must wear armbands" only talks about under-12s; older swimmers may still choose to wear them.

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**Who acts:** you, older swimmers · **What happens:** be, wear, talk, choose · **To what, where:** 12, armbands, swimmers · **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 (you, older swimmers), 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:20
# text = "If you are under 12, you must wear armbands" only talks about under-12s; older swimmers may still choose to wear them.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
11	armbands	armband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	12s	12	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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 | you |  |  | 12 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** *in a quote* | must | you | armbands |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent armband=Source |
| 3 | **talk** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about 12s | tree rules |
| 4 | **choose** | may | older swimmers |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear** | to-infinitive | older swimmers *not said here* | swimmers *= swimmer* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |

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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:20`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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