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title: A girl in Wales opened her friend's mum's cupboard while visiting an… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Wales opened her friend's mum's cupboard while visiting and broke a precious vase; she had not been invited in there, and her friend was not allowed to have visitors for a while. Who acts: girl, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quie
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# Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 25

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A girl in Wales opened her friend's mum's cupboard while visiting and broke a precious vase; she had not been invited in there, and her friend was not allowed to have visitors for a while.

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**Who acts:** girl, friend · **What happens:** open, visit, break, not invite, not allow, have · **To what, where:** cupboard, precious vase, girl, friend, visitors

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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 (girl, friend), 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:25
# text = A girl in Wales opened her friend's mum's cupboard while visiting and broke a precious vase; she had not been invited in there, and her friend was not allowed to have visitors for a while.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:NN:VerbForm=Ger
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | a girl in Wales | girl's friend's mum's cupboard |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cupboard=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | gerund | a girl in Wales *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **break** | past | a girl in Wales *not said here* | a precious vase |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vase=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **invite** | past · perfect · passive |  | girl |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **allow** | past · passive |  | girl's friend |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl's friend *not said here* | visitors |  |  | while |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient |

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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:25`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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