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title: For example, a boy in Vancouver is home alone when he hears a bang;… — Home alone, keys and garden play · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, a boy in Vancouver is home alone when he hears a bang; he stays in a safe room, calls his mum, and if he truly believed there was danger he would call 911. Who acts: boy, danger. A sentence of the lesson «Home alone, keys and garden play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school 
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# Home alone, keys and garden play, sentence 3

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For example, a boy in Vancouver is home alone when he hears a bang; he stays in a safe room, calls his mum, and if he truly believed there was danger he would call 911.

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**Who acts:** boy, danger · **What happens:** be, hear, stay, call, believe · **To what, where:** bang, safe room, mum, 911 · **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, 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:3
# text = For example, a boy in Vancouver is home alone when he hears a bang; he stays in a safe room, calls his mum, and if he truly believed there was danger he would call 911.
# 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
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
35	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
39	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | present | a boy in Vancouver | a bang |  |  |  | for example | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bang=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stay** | present | boy |  |  | a safe room |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 4 | **call** | present | boy *not said here* |  | boy's mum |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 5 | **believe** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | boy |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **be** | past | danger |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **call** | would | danger | 911 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 911=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:3`.

**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. **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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