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title: A man who comes home at strange hours may be a hospital porter on ni… — Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation · tree and pragmatics
description: A man who comes home at strange hours may be a hospital porter on night shifts. Who acts: man. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 4

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A man who comes home at strange hours may be a hospital porter on night shifts.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** come, be · **To what, where:** hospital porter, night shifts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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 (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:4
# text = A man who comes home at strange hours may be a hospital porter on night shifts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | a man |  |  |  | hour | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | may | a man | a hospital porter |  | night shifts |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:4`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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