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title: Sam keeps falling asleep in maths, because the chat is busiest at el… — The group chat that turns · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam keeps falling asleep in maths, because the chat is busiest at eleven at night, so Sam's mum rules that phones live in the kitchen from 8pm. Who acts: Sam, chat, mum, phones. A sentence of the lesson «The group chat that turns» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# The group chat that turns, sentence 27

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Sam keeps falling asleep in maths, because the chat is busiest at eleven at night, so Sam's mum rules that phones live in the kitchen from 8pm.

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**Who acts:** Sam, chat, mum, phones · **What happens:** keep, fall, be, rule, live · **To what, where:** maths, eleven, kitchen

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The group chat that turns» 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 (Sam, chat, mum, phones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson:27
# text = Sam keeps falling asleep in maths, because the chat is busiest at eleven at night, so Sam's mum rules that phones live in the kitchen from 8pm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 479-the-group-chat-that-turns.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	parataxis	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
19	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rules	rule	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
31	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | Sam *not said here* |  |  | maths |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in math=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the chat |  |  | eleven | night | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rule** | present | Sam's mum |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | present | phones |  |  | the kitchen |  | from 8 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location |

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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:479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson:27`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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