--- title: Phones let work follow people home, so messages arrive in the evenin… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics description: Phones let work follow people home, so messages arrive in the evening; many families make a no-phones-at-meals rule for that reason. Who acts: Phones, work, messages, many families. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Phones, work, messages, many families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson:10 # text = Phones let work follow people home, so messages arrive in the evening; many families make a no-phones-at-meals rule for that reason. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 arrive arrive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | Phones | work | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** | infinitive | work *not said here* | people | | | | home *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **arrive** | present | messages | | | | evening | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | many families | a phones rule | | | | for that reason | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent rule=Product for reason=Asset | 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](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:adult-life:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [A day at a grown-up's job, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/9/) - next →: [A day at a grown-up's job, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/)