--- title: And every house has its own rules: being a good guest means keeping… — Fighting games at a friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: And every house has its own rules: being a good guest means keeping to the rules of your own parents, even when the adults in charge aren't watching. Who acts: house, adults, own parents. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, adults, own parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:21 # text = And every house has its own rules: being a good guest means keeping to the rules of your own parents, even when the adults in charge aren't watching. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.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 ×2 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 csubj _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | every house | house's own rules | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | gerund | | a good guest | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | gerund | | | | | | to the rules of your own parents | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **watch** | present · progressive | the adults in charge | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rule** | | house | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **rule** | | your own parents | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:21`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Fighting games at a friend's house, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/19/) - next →: [Fighting games at a friend's house, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/)