--- title: A short time alone is fine at 9 or 10 if it's short, a grown-up is c… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics description: A short time alone is fine at 9 or 10 if it's short, a grown-up is close by, and there is a plan: who to call, who not to open the door to. Who acts: short time, key, grown up, plan. 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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, key, grown up, plan), 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:5 # text = A short time alone is fine at 9 or 10 if it's short, a grown-up is close by, and there is a plan: who to call, who not to 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 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 6 nsubj _ _ 4 alone alone ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 conj _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 22 by by ADV RB _ 21 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:parataxis 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | present | a short time | | | 9 | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | key | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a grown up | | | | | close *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | present | a plan | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **call** | to-infinitive | a plan | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **open** | to-infinitive | | the door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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: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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The only child: a quiet house, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/4/) - next →: [The only child: a quiet house, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/)