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title: A clear, calm ask like «Can you put your phone down for one minute?»… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: A clear, calm ask like «Can you put your phone down for one minute?» often works. Who acts: you, clear calm ask. A sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 31

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A clear, calm ask like «Can you put your phone down for one minute?» often works.

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**Who acts:** you, clear calm ask · **What happens:** put down, work · **To what, where:** phone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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 (you, clear calm ask), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:31
# text = A clear, calm ask like «Can you put your phone down for one minute?» often works.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ask	ask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **put down** *in a quote* | can | you | your phone |  |  | minute |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal |
| 2 | **work** | present | a clear calm ask |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:31`.

**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, R8-pos-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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