--- title: A boy in Phoenix gets a call from an unknown number asking "Is your… — A guest at the table, and manners on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Phoenix gets a call from an unknown number asking "Is your mum home?"; he lets his dad answer, because unknown callers can be scammers. Who acts: boy, mum, unknown callers. 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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 (boy, mum, unknown callers), 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:4 # text = A boy in Phoenix gets a call from an unknown number asking "Is your mum home?"; he lets his dad answer, because unknown callers can be scammers. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Phoenix Phoenix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 14 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 home home ADV RB _ 12 ccomp _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod:poss 24 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 callers caller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 scammers scammer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | a boy in Phoenix | a call | | a unknown number | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent call=Theme from number=Source | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your mum | | | | | home *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **let** | present | boy | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | can | unknown callers | scammers | | | | | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:4`. **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 ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [A guest at the table, and manners on t…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/3/) - next →: [A guest at the table, and manners on t…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/)