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title: Listening in on someone else's phone call is snooping, even inside y… — Snooping on phones, diaries and letters · tree and pragmatics
description: Listening in on someone else's phone call is snooping, even inside your own home. Who acts: Listening, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Snooping on phones, diaries and letters, sentence 20

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Listening in on someone else's phone call is snooping, even inside your own home.

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**Who acts:** Listening, someone · **What happens:** listen in, snoop, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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 (Listening, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:20
# text = Listening in on someone else's phone call is snooping, even inside your own home.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.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	Listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	else	else	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	snooping	snoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **listen in** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on someone's phone call | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on call=Theme |
| 2 | **snoop** | present · progressive | Listening |  |  |  |  | inside your own home | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside home=Theme |
| 3 | **call** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:20`.

**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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