A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 4

A boy in Phoenix gets a call from an unknown number asking "Is your mum home?"; he lets his dad answer, because unknown callers can be scammers.

Who acts: boy, mum, unknown callers · What happens: get, ask, be, let, answer · To what, where: call, unknown number, scammers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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 (boy, mum, unknown callers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Phoenix	case
4	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 call	det
7	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 number	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 number	det
10	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 number	amod
11	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	nmod
12	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gets	parataxis
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 home	punct
14	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 home	cop
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mum	nmod:poss
16	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 home	nsubj
17	home	home	ADV	_	12 asking	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 home	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 home	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lets	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lets	nsubj
22	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gets	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dad	nmod:poss
24	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 answer	compound
25	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lets	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 scammers	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 scammers	mark
28	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 callers	amod
29	callers	caller	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 scammers	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 scammers	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 scammers	cop
32	scammers	scammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lets	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	a boy in Phoenix	a call	a unknown number		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent call=Theme from number=Source
2	ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	your mum			home property	tree rules
4	let	present	boy				tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	infinitive	boy not said here				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	can	unknown callers	scammers			tree rules

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, 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:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:4.

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 ×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.

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