--- title: When a child is old enough to stay home alone for a short time, the… — Home alone, the door and the phone · tree and pragmatics description: When a child is old enough to stay home alone for a short time, the family agrees on clear rules first: who may come in, what you may use, and how to reach a parent. Who acts: child, family, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, family, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:035-home-alone.lesson:0 # text = When a child is old enough to stay home alone for a short time, the family agrees on clear rules first: who may come in, what you may use, and how to reach a parent. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 035-home-alone.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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 6 enough enough ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 alone alone ADV RB _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 agrees agree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 advmod _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 27 in in ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 obj _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a child | | | | | enough, old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* | | | | time | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | the family | | | | | on clear rules; first *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on rule=Topic | | 4 | **come in** | may | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **use** | may | you | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 6 | **reach** | to-infinitive | | a parent | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent parent=Theme | 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. **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:035-home-alone.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Fire at home, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/25/) - next →: [Home alone, the door and the phone, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/)