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title: An open front door lets pets escape and strangers walk in. — Home alone, keys and garden play · tree and pragmatics
description: An open front door lets pets escape and strangers walk in. Who acts: open front door, pets, 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Home alone, keys and garden play, sentence 9

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An open front door lets pets escape and strangers walk in.

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**Who acts:** open front door, pets, strangers · **What happens:** let, escape, walk in

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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 (open front door, pets, 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:9
# text = An open front door lets pets escape and strangers walk in.
# 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 ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **let** | present | a open front door |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **escape** | infinitive | pets |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk in** | infinitive | strangers |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`.

**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 ×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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