Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop, sentence 1

"Tell me about volcanoes" gets a blur; "Explain in five steps why volcanoes erupt, for a 9-year-old" gets something useful.

Who acts: volcanoes · What happens: tell, get, explain, erupt · To what, where: me, blur, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» of the ai 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 (volcanoes), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 gets	parataxis
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 volcanoes	case
5	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Tell	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 blur	det
9	blur	blur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 Explain	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Explain	punct
12	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 gets	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 steps	case
14	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 steps	nummod
15	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Explain	obl
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 erupt	advmod
17	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 erupt	nsubj
18	erupt	erupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Explain	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Explain	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	26 old	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 old	det
22	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 year	nummod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 9	punct
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 old	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 year	punct
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Explain	obl
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 old	punct
28	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gets	conj
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 gets	obj
30	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 something	amod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			me	about volcanoes	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about volcano=Topic
2	get	present		a blur			tree rules
3	explain speech: assert in a quote	infinitive				in five steps; for a year old	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	erupt in a quote	present	volcanoes				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	present		something			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

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:ai:008-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop.lesson:1.

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. 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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