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title: The bathroom is private: close the door, and others should knock bef… — Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair… · tree and pragmatics
description: The bathroom is private: close the door, and others should knock before coming in. Who acts: bathroom, others. A sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play, sentence 12

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The bathroom is private: close the door, and others should knock before coming in.

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**Who acts:** bathroom, others · **What happens:** be, close, knock, come in · **To what, where:** door

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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 (bathroom, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:12
# text = The bathroom is private: close the door, and others should knock before coming in.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the bathroom |  |  |  |  | private *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **close** | infinitive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 3 | **knock** | should | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come in** | gerund | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:12`.

**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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