--- title: If a caller asks whether your parents are home, never say you are al… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics description: If a caller asks whether your parents are home, never say you are alone; say they can't come to the phone, hang up and tell them. Who acts: caller, parents, you, callers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caller, parents, you, callers), 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:28 # text = If a caller asks whether your parents are home, never say you are alone; say they can't come to the phone, hang up and tell them. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 caller caller NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 4 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 hang hang VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a caller | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | your parents | | | | | home *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | you | | | | | alone *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **come** | can | callers *= caller* | | | the phone | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to phone=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **hang up** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | callers *= caller* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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:28`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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