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title: Each family decides when it is right for a child to have a phone. — Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Each family decides when it is right for a child to have a phone. Who acts: family. 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 9

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Each family decides when it is right for a child to have a phone.

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**Who acts:** family · **What happens:** decide, be, have · **To what, where:** phone

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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 (family), 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:9
# text = Each family decides when it is right for a child to have a phone.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **decide** | present | each family |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | family |  |  |  |  | for a child; right *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | family *not said here* | a phone |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=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: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): 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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