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title: Before staying home alone, a child should agree on rules with their… — Home alone, the door and the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Before staying home alone, a child should agree on rules with their parents. Who acts: child. A sentence of the lesson «Home alone, the door and the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Home alone, the door and the phone, sentence 12

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Before staying home alone, a child should agree on rules with their parents.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** stay, agree

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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 (child), 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:12
# text = Before staying home alone, a child should agree on rules with their parents.
# 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	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **stay** | gerund | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | should | a child |  |  |  |  | with rules's parents; on rules | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent on rule=Topic with parent=Co-Agent |

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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:035-home-alone.lesson:12`.

**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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