Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 0
At Ming's house good manners are a little different from yours: there is a thank-you, a sorry for when you did wrong, a softer sorry for small slips, and the answers that go with them.
Who acts: good manners, thank, you, answers · What happens: be, do, go · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» of the chinese street 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 (good manners, thank, you, answers), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 2 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ming | case |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 different | obl |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 manners | amod |
| 6 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 different | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 different | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 different | obl |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 yours | case |
| 12 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 different | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 different | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thank | det |
| 17 | thank | thank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 you | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 thank | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sorry | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sorry | det |
| 22 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 different | conj |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 did | mark |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 did | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sorry | advcl |
| 27 | wrong | wrong | ADV | _ | 26 did | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 softer | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 softer | det |
| 30 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 different | conj |
| 31 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 softer | appos |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 slips | case |
| 33 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 slips | amod |
| 34 | slips | slip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sorry | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 answers | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 answers | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 answers | det |
| 38 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sorry | conj |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 go | nsubj |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 answers | acl:relcl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 go | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 different | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good manners | Ming's house | from yours; a little obl; different property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | present | a thank | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | good manners not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | past | you | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | be | good manners not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | go | present | the answers | with manners | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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:chinese-street:003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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