Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 1

Many school rules exist so that adults always know where every child is: answering the register, asking to go to the toilet, and going back to the office if nobody comes to pick you up.

Who acts: Many school rules, adults, child, nobody · What happens: exist, know, be, answer, ask, go · To what, where: register, toilet, you

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» of the everyday 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 (Many school rules, adults, child, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rules	amod
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rules	compound
3	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exist	nsubj
4	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 that	fixed
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 know	mark
7	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 know	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exist	advcl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 know	advmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 where	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 where	cop
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 answering	punct
15	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 where	advcl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 register	det
17	register	register	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answering	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asking	punct
19	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 answering	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 asking	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 toilet	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 toilet	det
24	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 going	cc
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 answering	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 going	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 office	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 office	det
31	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 back	obl
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 comes	mark
33	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 comes	nsubj
34	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 going	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 pick	mark
36	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 comes	advcl
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 pick	obj
38	up	up	ADP	_	36 pick	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 exist	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exist	present	Many school rules				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present	adults			always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	every child			where property	tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	gerund	every child not said here	the register			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent register=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask	gerund	every child not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	every child not said here		the toilet		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location
7	go back	gerund	every child not said here				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
8	come a condition, not said to happen	present	nobody				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	pick up	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	you			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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, 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:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:1.

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): 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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