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title: A good plan for being home alone says who to call and who you may op… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics
description: A good plan for being home alone says who to call and who you may open the door to. Who acts: good plan, you. 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 31

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A good plan for being home alone says who to call and who you may open the door to.

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**Who acts:** good plan, you · **What happens:** be, say, call, open · **To what, where:** door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (good plan, you), 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:31
# text = A good plan for being home alone says who to call and who you may open the door to.
# 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	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | alone, home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a good plan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **call** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient |
| 4 | **open** | may | you | the door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to who=Recipient |

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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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**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/).

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