--- title: On the bus or in a shop you speak quietly and keep a call short, and… — Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you… · tree and pragmatics description: On the bus or in a shop you speak quietly and keep a call short, and you let a parent answer calls or messages from numbers you do not know, because they could be scammers. Who acts: you, numbers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, numbers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:0 # text = On the bus or in a shop you speak quietly and keep a call short, and you let a parent answer calls or messages from numbers you do not know, because they could be scammers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.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 ×3 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 21 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 37 scammers scammer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you | | | the bus or a shop | | quietly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a call | | | | short *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | | 3 | **let** | past | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | parent calls or messages | | numbers | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | you | numbers *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | | 6 | **is a** | could | numbers *= number* | scammers | | | | | tree rules | 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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:0`. **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 ×3. **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. 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