--- title: Lots of young adults find phone calls to strangers scary; planning w… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics description: Lots of young adults find phone calls to strangers scary; planning what to say first helps, and it gets easier with practice. Who acts: Lots, planning, Renting. A sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Looking after yourself and a home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/) / 15 # Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 15 Lots of young adults find phone calls to strangers scary; planning what to say first helps, and it gets easier with practice. **Who acts:** Lots, planning, Renting · **What happens:** find, plan, say, help, get · **To what, where:** phone calls · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life 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 (Lots, planning, Renting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:15 # text = Lots of young adults find phone calls to strangers scary; planning what to say first helps, and it gets easier with practice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 planning plan VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 advmod _ _ 17 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | Lots of young adults | phone calls | | | | to strangers; scary *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Topic | | 2 | **plan** | gerund | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **help** | present | planning | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | present | Renting *= rent* | | | | | with practice; easy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Looking after yourself and a home, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/14/) - next →: [Looking after yourself and a home, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/)