Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 1

Respect means small things: asking before picking someone's flowers, knocking to ask for a lost ball instead of climbing their fence, and playing where your ball will not hit their car.

Who acts: Respect, ball · What happens: mean, ask, pick, knock, lose, climb · To what, where: small things, flowers, fence, car

This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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 (Respect, ball), 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	Respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 asking	punct
6	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	conj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 picking	mark
8	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 asking	advcl
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 flowers	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 someone	case
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 picking	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knocking	punct
13	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 asking	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ask	mark
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knocking	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 ball	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ball	det
18	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ball	amod
19	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ask	obl
20	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 climbing	mark
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 instead	fixed
22	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 ask	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fence	nmod:poss
24	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 climbing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 playing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 playing	cc
27	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 asking	parataxis
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 hit	advmod
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ball	nmod:poss
30	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hit	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 hit	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 hit	advmod
33	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 playing	parataxis
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 car	nmod:poss
35	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hit	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Respect	small things		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	Respect not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pick	gerund	Respect not said here	someone's flowers		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
4	knock	gerund	Respect not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Respect not said here		for a lost ball	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	climb	gerund	Respect not said here	flowers's fence		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fence=Theme
8	play	gerund				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	not hit	future	your ball	flowers's car		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Co-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:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.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): 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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