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title: In quiet places, your noise or touch can spoil things for others: ru… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics
description: In quiet places, your noise or touch can spoil things for others: rustling wrappers in a film, running in a mosque, touching an old painting, or chatting at a funeral. Who acts: noise, your. A sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» of the every
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# Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 10

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In quiet places, your noise or touch can spoil things for others: rustling wrappers in a film, running in a mosque, touching an old painting, or chatting at a funeral.

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**Who acts:** noise, your · **What happens:** spoil, rustle, run, touch, chat, noise · **To what, where:** things, quiet places, wrappers, film, mosque, old painting

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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 (noise, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:10
# text = In quiet places, your noise or touch can spoil things for others: rustling wrappers in a film, running in a mosque, touching an old painting, or chatting at a funeral.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rustling	rustle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	wrappers	wrapper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mosque	mosque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **spoil** | can | your noise or touch | things |  | quiet places |  | for others | tree rules |
| 2 | **rustle** | gerund | your noise or touch *not said here* | wrappers |  | a film |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wrapper=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | your noise or touch *not said here* |  |  | a mosque |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mosque=Trajectory |
| 4 | **touch** | gerund | your noise or touch *not said here* | a old painting |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme painting=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | your noise or touch *not said here* |  |  | a funeral |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **noise** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event 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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:10`.

**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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