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title: A guest follows the hosts' rules, even if the rules at home are diff… — Video calls and visiting a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: A guest follows the hosts' rules, even if the rules at home are different. Who acts: guest, rules, hosts. 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.
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# Video calls and visiting a friend's house, sentence 9

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A guest follows the hosts' rules, even if the rules at home are different.

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**Who acts:** guest, rules, hosts · **What happens:** follow, be, rule · **To what, where:** rules

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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 (guest, rules, 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:9
# text = A guest follows the hosts' rules, even if the rules at home are different.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | a guest | the hosts's rules |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the rules at home |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **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:9`.

**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/).

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