--- title: Picture a Tuesday in Toronto: Dad says "No phones at the table" and… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a Tuesday in Toronto: Dad says "No phones at the table" and checks his own under it, Mum skips dessert because she's "being good", and after you go to bed they both watch TV until midnight and yawn all the next day. Who acts: you, Dad, Mum, Phones. 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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, Dad, Mum, Phones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson:2 # text = Picture a Tuesday in Toronto: Dad says "No phones at the table" and checks his own under it, Mum skips dessert because she's "being good", and after you go to bed they both watch TV until midnight and yawn all the next day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 under under ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 skips skip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 25 dessert dessert NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 cop _ _ 31 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 35 after after SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:nsubj 41 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 42 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 43 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 44 until until ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:obl 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 yawn yawn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 48 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 51 det:predet _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl:unmarked _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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* | | | | tuesday | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad | no phones | | the table | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent phone=Topic | | 3 | **check** | present | Dad *not said here* | Dad's own | | table | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme | | 4 | **skip** | present | Mum | dessert | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dessert=Theme | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mum | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | present | you | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **watch** | present | Phones *= phone* | both TV | | | midnight | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme | | 8 | **yawn** | present | Phones *= phone* *not said here* | | | | day | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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](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:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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