--- title: Being trusted to stay home alone for a short time is a step towards… — Home alone, keys and garden play · tree and pragmatics description: Being trusted to stay home alone for a short time is a step towards growing up, but it only works with a plan: a grown-up agrees, you know when they will be back and how to reach them, and you know what you may and may not do. Who acts: step, grown up, you, they. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (step, grown up, you, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play.lesson:0 # text = Being trusted to stay home alone for a short time is a step towards growing up, but it only works with a plan: a grown-up agrees, you know when they will be back and how to reach them, and you know what you may and may not do. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play.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 ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 csubj:pass _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 5 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 alone alone ADV RB _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 towards towards SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 15 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 agrees agree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 38 back back ADV RB _ 33 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advmod 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 48 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 54 obj _ _ 49 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 50 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 52 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 54 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 ccomp _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trust** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: clause=Theme | | 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | | | | | time | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a step | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow up** | gerund | a step *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **work** | present | step | | | | | with a plan | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with plan=Co-Agent | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | a grown up | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **is** | future | they | | | | | back *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **reach** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 11 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 12 | **not** **do** | may | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play.lesson:0`. **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 ×5, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Fire, candles and garage and garden to…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/23/) - next →: [Home alone, keys and garden play, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play/)