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title: A good guest follows the hosts' rules, stays in the rooms they are i… — Video calls and visiting a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: A good guest follows the hosts' rules, stays in the rooms they are invited into, helps tidy up, and owns up straight away if something breaks. Who acts: good guest, rooms, something, hosts. A sentence of the lesson «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary 
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# Video calls and visiting a friend's house, sentence 2

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A good guest follows the hosts' rules, stays in the rooms they are invited into, helps tidy up, and owns up straight away if something breaks.

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**Who acts:** good guest, rooms, something, hosts · **What happens:** follow, stay, invite, help, tidy up, own up · **To what, where:** rules, rooms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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 (good guest, rooms, something, hosts), 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:2
# text = A good guest follows the hosts' rules, stays in the rooms they are invited into, helps tidy up, and owns up straight away if something breaks.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	tidy	tidy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
30	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | a good guest | the hosts's rules |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | present | a good guest *not said here* |  |  | the rooms |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 3 | **invite** | present · passive | the rooms *not said here* | rules *= rule* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **help** | present | a good guest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **tidy up** | present | a good guest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **own up** | present | a good guest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **rule** |  | the hosts |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.lesson:2`.

**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/).

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