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title: In Dorset, Esme lets herself in at 3:45 and Dad, a postman, is home… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics
description: In Dorset, Esme lets herself in at 3:45 and Dad, a postman, is home at 4. Who acts: Esme, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The only child: a quiet house, sentence 1

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In Dorset, Esme lets herself in at 3:45 and Dad, a postman, is home at 4.

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**Who acts:** Esme, Dad · **What happens:** let in, be · **To what, where:** Esme, Dorset, 4

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» 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 (Esme, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:1
# text = In Dorset, Esme lets herself in at 3:45 and Dad, a postman, is home at 4.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Dorset	dorset	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Esme	Esme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	3:45	3:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
11	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	postman	postman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **let in** | present | Esme | Esme |  | Dorset |  | at 3:45 | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at 3:45=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | present | Dad |  |  | 4 |  | home *property* | tree rules |

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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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:1`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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