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title: If you made a mess while playing at someone's house, help tidy up be… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics
description: If you made a mess while playing at someone's house, help tidy up before you go home. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 13

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If you made a mess while playing at someone's house, help tidy up before you go home.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** make, play, help, tidy up, go · **To what, where:** mess, house

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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 (you), 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:13
# text = If you made a mess while playing at someone's house, help tidy up before you go home.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	tidy	tidy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | a mess |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Product |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | someone's house |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **tidy up** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | present | you |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:13`.

**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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