--- title: Meanwhile Zara played the whole evening whispering, because her baby… — Teams and voice chat · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile Zara played the whole evening whispering, because her baby brother was asleep next door — and her whispered «there's one behind you» was somehow the scariest thing anyone heard all night. Who acts: Zara, baby brother, one, anyone. 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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 (Zara, baby brother, one, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:405-teams-and-voice-chat.lesson:6 # text = Meanwhile Zara played the whole evening whispering, because her baby brother was asleep next door — and her whispered «there's one behind you» was somehow the scariest thing anyone heard all night. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 405-teams-and-voice-chat.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Zara Zara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 6 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 whispering whisper VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ _ 17 — - PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 whispered whisper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 nsubj _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:parataxis 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 25 behind behind ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 scariest scary ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:amod 32 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 33 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 nsubj _ _ 34 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | past | Zara | | | | | meanwhile *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | Zara *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | Zara's baby brother | asleep next door | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | one you | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | past | | the scariest thing | | | | somehow *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **hear** | past | anyone | the scariest thing *not said here* | | | night | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | 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:405-teams-and-voice-chat.lesson:6`. **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 ×4, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Teams and voice chat, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/5/) - next →: [Teams and voice chat, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/)