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title: A child checks with a parent before going inside a neighbour's house… — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling · tree and pragmatics
description: A child checks with a parent before going inside a neighbour's house alone, so a grown-up knows where they are. Who acts: child, grown up, hands. 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 pr
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# Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 9

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A child checks with a parent before going inside a neighbour's house alone, so a grown-up knows where they are.

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**Who acts:** child, grown up, hands · **What happens:** check, go, grow, know, be · **To what, where:** house · **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 (child, grown up, hands), 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:9
# text = A child checks with a parent before going inside a neighbour's house alone, so a grown-up knows where they are.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
18	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
21	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	ccomp	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **check** | present | a child |  |  |  |  | with a parent | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | a child *not said here* |  |  | a neighbour's house |  | alone *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside house=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present | a grown up |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | where *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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**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: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): R5-strong ×4, 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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