--- title: In Brooklyn, Desmond comes home with a key on a lanyard, microwaves… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics description: In Brooklyn, Desmond comes home with a key on a lanyard, microwaves pasta and does homework at the counter; his mom texts «u good?» and he sends a thumbs-up. Who acts: Desmond, mom. 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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 (Desmond, mom), 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:24 # text = In Brooklyn, Desmond comes home with a key on a lanyard, microwaves pasta and does homework at the counter; his mom texts «u good?» and he sends a thumbs-up. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Brooklyn Brooklyn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Desmond Desmond PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 6 home home ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 lanyard lanyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 microwaves microwave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 pasta pasta NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 counter counter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod:poss 24 mom mom NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 texts text VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 u you PRON PRP Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 ccomp _ _ 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 thumbs thumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 compound _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Desmond | | | Brooklyn | | with a key on a lanyard; home *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brooklyn=Location | | 2 | **microwave** | present | | pasta | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pasta=Patient | | 3 | **do** | present | | homework | | the counter | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality | | 4 | **text** | present | Desmond's mom | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **send** | present | Desmond | a thumbs up | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme | 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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:24`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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: [The only child: a quiet house, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/23/) - next →: [The only child: a quiet house, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/)