--- title: To get a parent's attention while they talk, wait for a pause or put… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics description: To get a parent's attention while they talk, wait for a pause or put your hand gently on their arm and wait. Who acts: you, email, parent. 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 depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/) / 17 # Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 17 To get a parent's attention while they talk, wait for a pause or put your hand gently on their arm and wait. **Who acts:** you, email, parent · **What happens:** get, talk, wait, put, attend · **To what, where:** attention, hand, arm 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, email, parent), 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:17 # text = To get a parent's attention while they talk, wait for a pause or put your hand gently on their arm and wait. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 gently gently ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a parent's attention | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus | | 2 | **talk** | present | email | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for a pause | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your hand | | email's arm | | gently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on arm=Destination | | 5 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **attend** | | a parent | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:17`. **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 ×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. 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