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title: Close the bathroom door, and expect others to knock, because toilet… — Gratitude, helping at home and privacy · tree and pragmatics
description: Close the bathroom door, and expect others to knock, because toilet time is private. Who acts: you, others, toilet time. A sentence of the lesson «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gratitude, helping at home and privacy, sentence 15

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Close the bathroom door, and expect others to knock, because toilet time is private.

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**Who acts:** you, others, toilet time · **What happens:** close, expect, knock, be · **To what, where:** bathroom door, others

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» 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, others, toilet time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.lesson:15
# text = Close the bathroom door, and expect others to knock, because toilet time is private.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.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	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	mark	_	_
13	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | the bathroom door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **expect** | infinitive | you *not said here* | others |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **knock** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | toilet time |  |  |  |  | private *property* | 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:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.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): 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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