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title: Many rules that feel annoying are about safety and sleep: waiting fo… — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics
description: Many rules that feel annoying are about safety and sleep: waiting for the green man, not going to the park alone, coming in when told, knocking before going into a neighbour's garden. Who acts: Many rules. A sentence of the lesson «Staying up, screens and coming home late» of the everyday course of 
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# Staying up, screens and coming home late, sentence 12

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Many rules that feel annoying are about safety and sleep: waiting for the green man, not going to the park alone, coming in when told, knocking before going into a neighbour's garden.

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**Who acts:** Many rules · **What happens:** feel, be, wait, not go, come in, tell · **To what, where:** park, garden · **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 (Many rules), 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:12
# text = Many rules that feel annoying are about safety and sleep: waiting for the green man, not going to the park alone, coming in when told, knocking before going into a neighbour's garden.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	annoying	annoying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
12	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
28	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
31	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **feel** | present | Many rules |  |  |  |  | annoying *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Many rules |  |  |  |  | about safety and sleep | tree rules |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the green man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **go** | gerund |  |  |  | the park |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to park=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **come in** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **knock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | a neighbour's garden |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location |

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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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