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title: His parents were called in to talk with the teacher; at home there w… — Copying and peeking in tests · tree and pragmatics
description: His parents were called in to talk with the teacher; at home there was a row and the console went away for a week. Who acts: console. A sentence of the lesson «Copying and peeking in tests» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Copying and peeking in tests, sentence 10

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His parents were called in to talk with the teacher; at home there was a row and the console went away for a week.

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**Who acts:** console · **What happens:** call in, talk, be, go away · **To what, where:** parents, row

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying and peeking in tests» 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 (console), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.lesson:10
# text = His parents were called in to talk with the teacher; at home there was a row and the console went away for a week.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:PronType=Dem
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **call in** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | planner's parents |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **talk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the teacher | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with teacher=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a row |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go away** | past | the console |  |  |  | week | away *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:340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.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): R5-strong ×3, 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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