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title: Mum had been phoning everyone, really frightened. — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum had been phoning everyone, really frightened. Who acts: 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 10

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Mum had been phoning everyone, really frightened.

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**Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** phone · **To what, where:** everyone

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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 (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:10
# text = Mum had been phoning everyone, really frightened.
# 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): no change
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux	_	_
4	phoning	phone	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
9	.	.	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 | **phone** | past · perfect · progressive | Mum |  | everyone |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |

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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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**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): no change. **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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