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title: When home alone for a short time, follow your parents' rules, do not… — Responsibility, independence and curiosity · tree and pragmatics
description: When home alone for a short time, follow your parents' rules, do not open the door to strangers and know how to call them. Who acts: you, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Responsibility, independence and curiosity, sentence 10

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When home alone for a short time, follow your parents' rules, do not open the door to strangers and know how to call them.

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**Who acts:** you, parents · **What happens:** follow, not open, know, call, rule · **To what, where:** rules, door, strangers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» of the everyday 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, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:10
# text = When home alone for a short time, follow your parents' rules, do not open the door to strangers and know how to call them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	advcl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* | your parents's rules |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **open** | infinitive · do-support |  | the door | strangers |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to stranger=Recipient |
| 3 | **know** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **call** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | rules *= rule* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 5 | **rule** |  | your parents |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:everyday:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:10`.

**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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