--- title: Before visiting a friend you ask your parent, and an adult must know… — Video calls and visiting a friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: Before visiting a friend you ask your parent, and an adult must know where you are and when to collect you. Who acts: you, adult. 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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 (you, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.lesson:1 # text = Before visiting a friend you ask your parent, and an adult must know where you are and when to collect you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.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 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 visiting visit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 ccomp _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **visit** | gerund | you *not said here* | a friend | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | | your parent | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | | 3 | **know** | must | a adult | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | you | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **collect** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | you | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.lesson:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [A guest at the table, and manners on t…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/24/) - next →: [Video calls and visiting a friend's ho…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/)