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title: If a noise scares you, stay somewhere safe and call a parent; if the… — Home alone, keys and garden play · tree and pragmatics
description: If a noise scares you, stay somewhere safe and call a parent; if there is real danger, call the emergency number. Who acts: noise, you, real danger. 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 pragmatics
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# Home alone, keys and garden play, sentence 14

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If a noise scares you, stay somewhere safe and call a parent; if there is real danger, call the emergency number.

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**Who acts:** noise, you, real danger · **What happens:** scare, stay, call, be · **To what, where:** you, parent, emergency number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (noise, you, real danger), 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:14
# text = If a noise scares you, stay somewhere safe and call a parent; if there is real danger, call the emergency number.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	scares	scare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
8	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a noise | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a parent |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 4 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | real danger |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* | the emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |

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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:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/).

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