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title: "Residence" is a formal word for home; answering the phone with a po… — Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teac… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Residence" is a formal word for home; answering the phone with a polite greeting is safer when the caller might be a stranger. Who acts: Residence, phone, answering, caller. A sentence of the lesson «Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher» of the language course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 13

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"Residence" is a formal word for home; answering the phone with a polite greeting is safer when the caller might be a stranger.

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**Who acts:** Residence, phone, answering, caller · **What happens:** be, answer · **To what, where:** formal word, stranger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher» of the language 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 (Residence, phone, answering, caller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:13
# text = "Residence" is a formal word for home; answering the phone with a polite greeting is safer when the caller might be a stranger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
11	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	parataxis	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	caller	caller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Residence | a formal word |  |  |  | for home | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | the phone |  |  |  |  | with a polite greeting | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | answering |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | might | the caller | a stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:13`.

**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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