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title: The phone was locked to someone else's account. — The older kid's «trade» · tree and pragmatics
description: The phone was locked to someone else's account. Who acts: someone. A sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The older kid's «trade», sentence 8

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The phone was locked to someone else's account.

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**Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** lock, account · **To what, where:** phone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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 (someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:8
# text = The phone was locked to someone else's account.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 445-the-older-kids-trade.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
9	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **lock** | past · passive |  | the phone |  |  |  | to someone's account | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to account=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **account** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: 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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**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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