--- title: On the phone, safety comes first: you never tell a stranger you are… — A guest at the table, and manners on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: On the phone, safety comes first: you never tell a stranger you are home alone or give your address; you say your parent is busy and cannot come to the phone, and you tell your parent. Who acts: safety, you, parent, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (safety, you, parent, your), 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:3 # text = On the phone, safety comes first: you never tell a stranger you are home alone or give your address; you say your parent is busy and cannot come to the phone, and you tell your parent. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 advmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 home home ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 alone alone ADV RB _ 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 address address NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 iobj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | safety | | | the phone | | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on phone=Location | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | a stranger | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | you | a stranger *not said here* | | | | alone, home *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your address | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | your parent | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **come** | can | your parent *not said here* | | | the phone | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to phone=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | your parent | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | | 9 | **address** | | your | | | | | | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. 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