Bedroom, living room and manners at home, sentence 14
When grown-ups say «not in front of the kids», they mean the talk is private grown-up business, and you can ask a parent later if you are worried.
Who acts: grown ups, ups, talk, you · What happens: say, mean, grow up, be, ask · To what, where: front, private grown business, parent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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 (grown ups, ups, talk, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 2 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grown | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mean | advcl |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 front | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 front | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 kids | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kids | det |
| 12 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 front | nmod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 front | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mean | nsubj |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 talk | det |
| 18 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 business | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 business | cop |
| 20 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 business | amod |
| 21 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 business | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 up | punct |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 grown | compound:prt |
| 24 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mean | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ask | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ask | cc |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 ask | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 ask | aux |
| 29 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 mean | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 parent | det |
| 31 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ask | obj |
| 32 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 ask | advmod |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 worried | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 worried | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 worried | cop |
| 36 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ask | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | grown ups | front of the kids | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in front=Manner | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | ups = up | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the talk | private grown business | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | can | you | a parent | late property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | |||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | worried property | tree rules |
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:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners.lesson:14.
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): R4-particle ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners/14/