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title: Unknown callers could be scammers, so a parent answers or the call i… — A guest at the table, and manners on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Unknown callers could be scammers, so a parent answers or the call is ignored. Who acts: Unknown callers, parent. 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 15

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Unknown callers could be scammers, so a parent answers or the call is ignored.

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**Who acts:** Unknown callers, parent · **What happens:** be, answer, ignore · **To what, where:** scammers, call

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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 (Unknown callers, parent), 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:15
# text = Unknown callers could be scammers, so a parent answers or the call is ignored.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	callers	caller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	parataxis	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **is a** | could | Unknown callers | scammers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ignore** | present · passive |  | the call |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «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:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:15`.

**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): R6-punct-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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