---
title: Mum asked, «What time does it close?» «Er… 6?» It closes at 5. — Stories that change · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum asked, «What time does it close?» «Er… 6?» It closes at 5. Who acts: Mum, story. A sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Stories that change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/) / 10

# Stories that change, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mum asked, «What time does it close?» «Er… 6?» It closes at 5.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Mum, story · **What happens:** ask, close · **To what, where:** 5 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (Mum, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:449-stories-that-change.lesson:10
# text = Mum asked, «What time does it close?» «Er… 6?» It closes at 5.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 449-stories-that-change.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Er	er	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
14	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	parataxis	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **close** *in a quote* | present · do-support | story |  |  |  | time |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **close** | present | story |  |  | 5 |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Stories that change, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/8/)
- next →: [Stories that change, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/11/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/)