--- title: A girl in Sydney posted online that her parents were out all evening… — Home alone, the door and the phone · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Sydney posted online that her parents were out all evening; strangers saw it, and her family had to change the locks after someone tried their door. Who acts: girl, parents, strangers, family. 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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 (girl, parents, strangers, family), 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:11 # text = A girl in Sydney posted online that her parents were out all evening; strangers saw it, and her family had to change the locks after someone tried their door. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 posted post VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 online online ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 out out ADV RB _ 5 ccomp _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 after after SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 nsubj _ _ 29 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **post** | past | a girl in Sydney | | | | | online *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | girl's parents | | | | evening | out *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | past | strangers | parent | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | past | girl's family | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **change** | to-infinitive | girl's family *not said here* | the locks | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient | | 6 | **try** | past | someone | locks's door | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality | 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:11`. **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: [Home alone, the door and the phone, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/10/) - next →: [Home alone, the door and the phone, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/)