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title: Putting phones away during game night helps everyone pay attention t… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting phones away during game night helps everyone pay attention to each other. Who acts: Putting, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Family game night» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Family game night, sentence 26

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Putting phones away during game night helps everyone pay attention to each other.

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**Who acts:** Putting, everyone · **What happens:** putting away, help, pay · **To what, where:** phones, everyone, attention

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family game night» 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 (Putting, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:425-family-game-night.lesson:26
# text = Putting phones away during game night helps everyone pay attention to each other.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 425-family-game-night.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	Putting	putting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	9	obl	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **putting away** | gerund |  | phones |  |  | night | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | Putting | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* | attention |  |  |  | to each | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |

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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:425-family-game-night.lesson:26`.

**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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