--- title: A boy home alone in Ohio opened the door to a man who said he was fr… — Home alone, the door and the phone · tree and pragmatics description: A boy home alone in Ohio opened the door to a man who said he was from the gas company; it was a thief who walked in and took things while the boy was frightened. Who acts: boy, man, door, thief. 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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 (boy, man, door, thief), 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:10 # text = A boy home alone in Ohio opened the door to a man who said he was from the gas company; it was a thief who walked in and took things while the boy was frightened. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 alone alone ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 in in ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | a boy in Ohio | the door | a man | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to man=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | boy | | | the gas company | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | door | a thief | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **walk in** | past | a thief | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **take** | past | a thief *not said here* | things | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 7 | **frighten** | past · passive | | the boy | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | 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:10`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Home alone, the door and the phone, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/9/) - next →: [Home alone, the door and the phone, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/)