--- title: A clear ask often works: «Can you put your phone down for one minute… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: A clear ask often works: «Can you put your phone down for one minute?» In Cardiff, Lowri's mam works from home and says, «Not now, cariad, I'm on a call» («cariad» is Welsh for love) every single day, so Lowri stops asking. Who acts: clear ask, you, mam, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clear ask, you, mam, I), 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:5 # text = A clear ask often works: «Can you put your phone down for one minute?» In Cardiff, Lowri's mam works from home and says, «Not now, cariad, I'm on a call» («cariad» is Welsh for love) every single day, so Lowri stops asking. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ask ask NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 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 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 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 . _ 5 punct _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 19 In in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Cardiff Cardiff PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 Lowri Lowri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 mam mam NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 32 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 33 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 35 cariad cariad NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 38 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 48 punct _ _ 44 « « PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 cariad cariad NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 46 » » PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 48 Welsh Welsh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 49 for for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 48 punct _ _ 52 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 54 det _ _ 53 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl:unmarked _ _ 55 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=59:punct 56 so so ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 57 Lowri Lowri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 58 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 59 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 58 xcomp _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | a clear ask | | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **put down** *in a quote* | can | you | your phone | | | minute | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal | | 3 | **work** | present | Lowri's mam | | | | | from home; in Cardiff | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cardiff=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lowri's mam *not said here* | cariad | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **be** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | I | | | a call | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | cariad | Welsh | | | day | for love | tree rules | | 7 | **stop** | present | Lowri | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Lowri *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:5`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Cold parents: always on the phone, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/4/) - next →: [Cold parents: always on the phone, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/)