--- title: Before showing other people on camera, you check that they are happy… — Video calls and visiting a friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: Before showing other people on camera, you check that they are happy to be seen. Who acts: you, people. A sentence of the lesson «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Video calls and visiting a friend's ho…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/) / 6 # Video calls and visiting a friend's house, sentence 6 Before showing other people on camera, you check that they are happy to be seen. **Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** show, check, be, see · **To what, where:** other people, camera 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 (you, people), 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:6 # text = Before showing other people on camera, you check that they are happy to be seen. # 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 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 check check VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **show** | gerund | you *not said here* | | other people | camera | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 2 | **check** | present | you | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | people | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | 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:6`. **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. **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: [Video calls and visiting a friend's ho…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/5/) - next →: [Video calls and visiting a friend's ho…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/)