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title: Phone calls are best made between about 9 in the morning and 8 in th… — A guest at the table, and manners on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Phone calls are best made between about 9 in the morning and 8 in the evening, unless it is urgent. Who acts: call. A sentence of the lesson «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 14

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Phone calls are best made between about 9 in the morning and 8 in the evening, unless it is urgent.

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**Who acts:** call · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** Phone calls

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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 (call), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:14
# text = Phone calls are best made between about 9 in the morning and 8 in the evening, unless it is urgent.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.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	Phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	best	good	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | Phone calls |  |  |  | between 9 in the morning; good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | call |  |  |  |  | urgent *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:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:14`.

**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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