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title: Burglars check under doormats, so the hiding place of a spare key is… — Home alone, keys and garden play · tree and pragmatics
description: Burglars check under doormats, so the hiding place of a spare key is kept secret. Who acts: Burglars. 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 of every clause.
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# Home alone, keys and garden play, sentence 8

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Burglars check under doormats, so the hiding place of a spare key is kept secret.

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**Who acts:** Burglars · **What happens:** check, keep · **To what, where:** doormats, hiding place

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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 (Burglars), 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:8
# text = Burglars check under doormats, so the hiding place of a spare key is kept secret.
# 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): no change
1	Burglars	burglar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	doormats	doormat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	spare	spare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **check** | present | Burglars |  |  | doormats |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under doormat=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | present · passive |  | the hiding place of a spare key |  |  |  | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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