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title: Telling your parents where you are going keeps you safe. — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics
description: Telling your parents where you are going keeps you safe. Who acts: you, Telling. 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 18

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Telling your parents where you are going keeps you safe.

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**Who acts:** you, Telling · **What happens:** tell, go, keep · **To what, where:** parents, you · **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 (you, Telling), 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:18
# text = Telling your parents where you are going keeps you safe.
# 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	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
8	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	.	.	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | your parents |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | present | Telling | you |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.lesson:18`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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