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title: Alfie waited by the window all afternoon with the box open. — Promises to family · tree and pragmatics
description: Alfie waited by the window all afternoon with the box open. Who acts: Alfie. A sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Promises to family, sentence 2

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Alfie waited by the window all afternoon with the box open.

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**Who acts:** Alfie · **What happens:** wait

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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 (Alfie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:2
# text = Alfie waited by the window all afternoon with the box open.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **wait** | past | Alfie |  |  |  | afternoon | by the window; with the box | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by window=Location |

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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:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:2`.

**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): 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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