Gratitude, helping at home and privacy, sentence 12
Knock on a closed door and wait for an answer before going in.
Who acts: you · What happens: knock, close, wait, go in · To what, where: closed door
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» 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 | Knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 door | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knock | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wait | cc |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Knock | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 answer | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 answer | det |
| 10 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wait | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knock | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | imperative | you not said here | a closed door | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location | ||||
| 2 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | for a answer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in | gerund | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.lesson:12.
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): R8-pos-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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