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title: A child stays home alone only if a grown-up agrees and the child kno… — Home alone, keys and garden play · tree and pragmatics
description: A child stays home alone only if a grown-up agrees and the child knows when they will be back and how to contact them. Who acts: child, grown up, strangers. A sentence of the lesson «Home alone, keys and garden play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Home alone, keys and garden play, sentence 10

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A child stays home alone only if a grown-up agrees and the child knows when they will be back and how to contact them.

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**Who acts:** child, grown up, strangers · **What happens:** stay, grow, agree, know, be, contact · **To what, where:** strangers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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 (child, grown up, strangers), 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:10
# text = A child stays home alone only if a grown-up agrees and the child knows when they will be back and how to contact them.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	contact	contact	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **stay** | present | a child |  |  |  |  | alone, home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a grown up |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | present | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | future | strangers *= stranger* |  |  |  |  | back *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **contact** | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* | strangers *= stranger* |  |  |  |  | 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:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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