Teachers, visitors and the playground, sentence 1

When a teacher tells you off, you listen, say sorry if you were wrong and do not answer back, because answering back makes the trouble bigger; a detention (being kept in at break or after school) is a consequence that helps you change.

Who acts: teacher, you, answering, detention, consequence · What happens: tell off, listen, say, be, not answer back, answer back · To what, where: you, trouble, detention, break, consequence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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 (teacher, you, answering, detention), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 tells	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 listen	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tells	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 tells	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 listen	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 listen	nsubj
9	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 listen	conj
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 say	xcomp
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 wrong	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 wrong	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrong	cop
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sorry	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 answer	cc
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 answer	advmod
20	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 listen	conj
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 answer	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 answering	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 makes	mark
24	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 makes	csubj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 answering	advmod
26	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 trouble	det
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 makes	obj
29	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 makes	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 detention	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 detention	det
32	detention	detention	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 consequence	nsubj
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 kept	punct
34	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 kept	aux:pass
35	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 detention	acl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 break	case
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 break	case
38	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 kept	obl
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 school	cc
40	after	after	ADP	_	41 school	case
41	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 break	conj
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 kept	punct
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 consequence	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 consequence	det
45	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 listen	parataxis
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 helps	nsubj
47	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 consequence	acl:relcl
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 helps	obj
49	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 helps	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 listen	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	present	a teacher		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	listen	present	you					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: apologize	present	you not said here				sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	you				wrong property	tree rules
5	not answer back speech: assert	infinitive · do-support	you not said here					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	answer back speech: assert	gerund						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	make	present	answering	the trouble			big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trouble=Product
8	keep	gerund · passive		a detention not said here		break or school		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in break=Location
9	is a	present	a detention	a consequence				tree rules
10	help	present	a consequence	you				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
11	change	infinitive	you not said here					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.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): R8-pos-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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