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title: But a habit changes slowly — so when you're bored, come and find me,… — Snooping on phones, diaries and letters · tree and pragmatics
description: But a habit changes slowly — so when you're bored, come and find me, and we'll find you something to do.» Ruby put a list of rainy-day things on the fridge. Who acts: habit, you, we, Ruby. A sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sch
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# Snooping on phones, diaries and letters, sentence 9

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But a habit changes slowly — so when you're bored, come and find me, and we'll find you something to do.» Ruby put a list of rainy-day things on the fridge.

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**Who acts:** habit, you, we, Ruby · **What happens:** change, be, come, find, do, put · **To what, where:** me, something, you, list, fridge, day things · **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 (habit, you, we, Ruby), 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:9
# text = But a habit changes slowly — so when you're bored, come and find me, and we'll find you something to do.» Ruby put a list of rainy-day things on the fridge.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj
23	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
28	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | a habit |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 5 | **find** | future | we | something | you |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme something=Attribute |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **put** *in a quote* | past | Ruby | a list of day things |  | the fridge |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme on fridge=Destination |
| 8 | **list** *in a quote* |  |  | day things |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:9`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, 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/).

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