--- title: Picture a house in Cork at lunchtime on a Saturday: the kids tiptoe… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a house in Cork at lunchtime on a Saturday: the kids tiptoe past the bedroom door, whispering "Shh, Dad's on nights", because he drove a delivery lorry until six this morning. Who acts: you, kids, Dad. 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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 (you, kids, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.lesson:2 # text = Picture a house in Cork at lunchtime on a Saturday: the kids tiptoe past the bedroom door, whispering "Shh, Dad's on nights", because he drove a delivery lorry until six this morning. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.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 ×4 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Cork Cork PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 lunchtime lunchtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tiptoe tiptoe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 15 past past ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 whispering whisper VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Shh Shh INTJ UH _ 20 discourse _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 delivery delivery NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 until until ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 obl _ _ 38 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a house | | Cork | | at lunchtime on a Saturday | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 2 | **tiptoe** | present | the kids | | | the bedroom door | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past door=Trajectory | | 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | the kids *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Dad | | | | on nights | | tree rules | | 5 | **drive** | past | Dad | a delivery lorry | | | until six; morning | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=Theme | 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:002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.lesson:2`. **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 ×4. **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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