When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 5
If a teacher gets cross, step back and say sorry for the tone; tell a parent calmly at home.
Who acts: teacher, cross, you · What happens: get, step back, say, tell · To what, where: cross, parent, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths 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, cross, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 gets | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | advcl |
| 5 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 step | punct |
| 7 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gets | xcomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 step | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 say | cc |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 step | conj |
| 11 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 say | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 tone | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tone | det |
| 14 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sorry | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 parent | det |
| 18 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 16 tell | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | a teacher | cross | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | step back | infinitive | cross not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | cross not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a parent | home | calmly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
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:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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