Snooping on phones, diaries and letters, sentence 20
Listening in on someone else's phone call is snooping, even inside your own home.
Who acts: Listening, someone · What happens: listen in, snoop, call · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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 (Listening, someone), 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 | Listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 snooping | csubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Listening | compound:prt |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 call | case |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 call | nmod:poss |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 someone | advmod |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | compound |
| 8 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Listening | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 snooping | aux |
| 10 | snooping | snoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 home | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 home | advmod |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snooping | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 snooping | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in | gerund | on someone's phone call | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on call=Theme | |||||
| 2 | snoop | present · progressive | Listening | inside your own home | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | someone | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:20.
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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