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title: Isla in Phoenix kept playing on the tablet after Mum said «screens o… — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics
description: Isla in Phoenix kept playing on the tablet after Mum said «screens off». Who acts: Isla, Mum. A sentence of the lesson «Staying up, screens and coming home late» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Staying up, screens and coming home late, sentence 0

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Isla in Phoenix kept playing on the tablet after Mum said «screens off».

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**Who acts:** Isla, Mum · **What happens:** keep, play, say · **To what, where:** tablet, screens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying up, screens and coming home late» 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 (Isla, Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.lesson:0
# text = Isla in Phoenix kept playing on the tablet after Mum said «screens off».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Isla	Isla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **keep** | past | Isla in Phoenix |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | Isla in Phoenix *not said here* |  |  | the tablet |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum | screens |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent screen=Topic |

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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:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.lesson:0`.

**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, R7-rel-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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