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title: And Leo keeps his parents' rules on a sticky note on his screen. — Strangers who want to chat privately · tree and pragmatics
description: And Leo keeps his parents' rules on a sticky note on his screen. Who acts: Leo, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Strangers who want to chat privately, sentence 23

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And Leo keeps his parents' rules on a sticky note on his screen.

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**Who acts:** Leo, parents · **What happens:** keep, rule · **To what, where:** rules, sticky note

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» 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 (Leo, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:23
# text = And Leo keeps his parents' rules on a sticky note on his screen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.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	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **keep** | present | Leo | Leo's parents's rules |  | a sticky note on Leo's screen |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rule=Theme on note=Location |
| 2 | **rule** |  | Leo's parents |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: 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:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:23`.

**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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