Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 1

With adults it is safest to start formal: "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms" or "Dr" with their surname, until they tell you to use their first name.

Who acts: Mr · What happens: be, start, tell, use, name · To what, where: Mr, you, first name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting adults and teachers» 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 (Mr), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 adults	case
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 safest	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 safest	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safest	cop
5	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 start	mark
7	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 safest	csubj
8	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 start	xcomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Mr	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Mr	punct
11	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 start	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Mr	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Mrs	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Mrs	punct
15	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Mr	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Mrs	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Ms	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Ms	punct
19	Ms	Ms	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 adults	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Ms	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 Dr	cc
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Dr	punct
23	Dr	Dr	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Ms	conj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Dr	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 surname	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 surname	nmod:poss
27	surname	surname	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Ms	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 tell	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tell	nsubj
31	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 start	advcl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 use	mark
34	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tell	xcomp
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 name	nmod:poss
36	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 name	amod
37	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 use	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 adults	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present				with adults and Ms with Ms's surname or Dr; safe property	tree rules
2	start	to-infinitive		Mr and Mrs		formal property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mr=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	present	Mr		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mr not said here	Mr's first name			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
5	name		Mr				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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