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description: If someone tries to get in, or you smell gas or see smoke, you do not wait: you call the emergency number, and for gas or smoke you leave the house first. Who acts: someone, you. A sentence of the lesson «Home alone, the door and the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Home alone, the door and the phone, sentence 9

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If someone tries to get in, or you smell gas or see smoke, you do not wait: you call the emergency number, and for gas or smoke you leave the house first.

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**Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** try, get in, smell, see, not wait, call · **To what, where:** gas, smoke, emergency number, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (someone, 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:9
# text = If someone tries to get in, or you smell gas or see smoke, you do not wait: you call the emergency number, and for gas or smoke you leave the house first.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	33	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **smell** | present | you | gas |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gas=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | smoke |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **wait** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **call** | present | you | the emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
| 7 | **leave** | present | you | the house |  |  |  | for gas or smoke; first *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Theme for gas=Recipient |

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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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**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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