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title: Using the toilet is private, so you close the door and others knock… — Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Using the toilet is private, so you close the door and others knock first. Who acts: Using, you, others. A sentence of the lesson «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness, sentence 5

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Using the toilet is private, so you close the door and others knock first.

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**Who acts:** Using, you, others · **What happens:** use, be, close, knock · **To what, where:** toilet, door

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» 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 (Using, you, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness.lesson:5
# text = Using the toilet is private, so you close the door and others knock first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	knock	knock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **use** | gerund |  | the toilet |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Using |  |  |  |  | private *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **close** | present | you | the door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **knock** | present | others |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness.lesson:5`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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