--- title: A short time alone after school can be fine at 9 or 10 if it is shor… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics description: A short time alone after school can be fine at 9 or 10 if it is short, a grown-up is close and there are clear rules. Who acts: short time, school, grown up, clear rules. 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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 (short time, school, grown up, clear rules), 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:30 # text = A short time alone after school can be fine at 9 or 10 if it is short, a grown-up is close and there are clear rules. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 alone alone ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 conj _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ _ 27 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 28 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | a short time after school | | | 9 | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | school | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | a grown up | | | | | close *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **does** | present | clear rules | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:30`. **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): no change. **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, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/29/) - next →: [The only child: a quiet house, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/31/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/)