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title: In everyday deals, "if you finish your work, you can play" usually m… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics
description: In everyday deals, "if you finish your work, you can play" usually means "only if you finish". Who acts: you, your. 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 clause.
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# "If... then..." and its traps, sentence 8

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In everyday deals, "if you finish your work, you can play" usually means "only if you finish".

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** finish, play, mean, work · **To what, where:** work · **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, your), 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:8
# text = In everyday deals, "if you finish your work, you can play" usually means "only if you finish".
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	deals	deal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	finish	finish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	finish	finish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **finish** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | your work |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in everyday deals; usually *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in deal=Attribute |
| 4 | **finish** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **work** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:8`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-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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