Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 10
Children who greet adults themselves, instead of hiding behind a parent, seem confident and polite.
Who acts: Children · What happens: greet, hide, seem · To what, where: adults
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 (Children), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 greet | nsubj |
| 3 | greet | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Children | acl:relcl |
| 4 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 greet | obj |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 4 adults | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hiding | punct |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 hiding | mark |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 seem | advcl |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 parent | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 parent | det |
| 12 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hiding | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seem | punct |
| 14 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seem | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 polite | cc |
| 17 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 confident | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | present | Children | adults Children | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | Children not said here | behind a parent | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind parent=Location | ||||
| 3 | seem | present | Children | confident property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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