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title: A boy in Ohio home alone opened the door to a man who said he was fr… — Home alone, keys and garden play · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ohio home alone opened the door to a man who said he was from the gas company; the man walked in and took things, and the boy was very frightened. Who acts: boy, man. A sentence of the lesson «Home alone, keys and garden play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Home alone, keys and garden play, sentence 16

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A boy in Ohio home alone opened the door to a man who said he was from the gas company; the man walked in and took things, and the boy was very frightened.

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**Who acts:** boy, man · **What happens:** open, say, be, walk in, take · **To what, where:** door, man, gas company, things, boy · **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 (boy, man), 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:16
# text = A boy in Ohio home alone opened the door to a man who said he was from the gas company; the man walked in and took things, and the boy was very frightened.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
25	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:aux:pass
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	frightened	frighten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **open** | past | a boy in Ohio home | the door | a man |  |  | alone *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to man=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | boy |  |  | the gas company |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk in** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past | the man *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past · passive |  | the boy |  |  |  | frighten *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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**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 ×2, 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.

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