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title: Every night at eight o'clock Kai's house turned into a courtroom. — Screen-time rules and arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: Every night at eight o'clock Kai's house turned into a courtroom. Who acts: house. A sentence of the lesson «Screen-time rules and arguments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Screen-time rules and arguments, sentence 0

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Every night at eight o'clock Kai's house turned into a courtroom.

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**Who acts:** house · **What happens:** turn · **To what, where:** courtroom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen-time rules and arguments» 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 (house), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:0
# text = Every night at eight o'clock Kai's house turned into a courtroom.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	courtroom	courtroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Kai's house |  |  | a courtroom | night |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into courtroom=Trajectory |

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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:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:0`.

**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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