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title: Some door-to-door sellers are scams, so say no politely and close th… — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling · tree and pragmatics
description: Some door-to-door sellers are scams, so say no politely and close the door or fetch a grown-up. Who acts: door sellers. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 12

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Some door-to-door sellers are scams, so say no politely and close the door or fetch a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** door sellers · **What happens:** be, say, close, fetch · **To what, where:** scams, door, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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 (door sellers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:12
# text = Some door-to-door sellers are scams, so say no politely and close the door or fetch a grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.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 ×4
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound
7	sellers	seller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	scams	scam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	12	discourse	_	_
14	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
22	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
24	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | present | some door sellers | scams |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **close** | infinitive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **fetch** | infinitive |  | grown |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent grow=Beneficiary up=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:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:12`.

**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 ×4. **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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