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title: Scene: in Sydney in March 2024, Mum puts her phone down quietly. — The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scene: in Sydney in March 2024, Mum puts her phone down quietly. Who acts: Mum. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 6

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Scene: in Sydney in March 2024, Mum puts her phone down quietly.

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**Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** put down · **To what, where:** phone, Sydney

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» 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 (Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:6
# text = Scene: in Sydney in March 2024, Mum puts her phone down quietly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	dep	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:nmod
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | **put down** | present | Mum | Mum's phone |  | Sydney in March  2024 |  | quietly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent phone=Theme in sydney=Destination |

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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:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:6`.

**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, R6-punct-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/).

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