--- title: At a sleepover you can always ask to ring home if a film is too old… — Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and pare… · tree and pragmatics description: At a sleepover you can always ask to ring home if a film is too old for you. Who acts: you, film. A sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/20/) [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/) / [Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/) / 20 # Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 20 At a sleepover you can always ask to ring home if a film is too old for you. **Who acts:** you, film · **What happens:** ask, ring, be · **To what, where:** sleepover This is a sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» 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 (you, film), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:20 # text = At a sleepover you can always ask to ring home if a film is too old for you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.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 ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sleepover sleepover NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 ring ring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 home home ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | you | | | a sleepover | | always *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **ring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a film | | | | | for you; old *property* | tree rules | 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:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:20`. **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 ×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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