Home alone, the door and the phone, sentence 15

You should never tell a stranger, on the phone, at the door or online, that you are home alone.

Who acts: You · What happens: not tell, be · To what, where: stranger, phone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Home alone, the door and 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 (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 phone	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 phone	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 phone	det
10	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 door	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 online	cc
16	online	online	ADV	_	14 door	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 home	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 home	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 home	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 home	cop
21	home	home	ADV	_	4 tell	ccomp
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	21 home	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	should	You	a stranger		the phone		at the door	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient
2	is	present	you					alone, home property	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:035-home-alone.lesson:15.

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.

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