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title: Rules in a children's home, like bedtimes and phone times, are there… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: Rules in a children's home, like bedtimes and phone times, are there to keep children safe; many families have similar rules. Who acts: Rules, many families. A sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Living in a children's home, sentence 40

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Rules in a children's home, like bedtimes and phone times, are there to keep children safe; many families have similar rules.

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**Who acts:** Rules, many families · **What happens:** be, keep, have · **To what, where:** children, similar rules

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» 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 (Rules, many families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:40
# text = Rules in a children's home, like bedtimes and phone times, are there to keep children safe; many families have similar rules.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 520-living-in-a-childrens-home.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bedtimes	bedtime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
24	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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** | present | Rules in a children's home like bedtimes and phone times |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Rules in a children's home like bedtimes and phone times *not said here* | children |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | many families | similar rules |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |

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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:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:40`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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