Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 12
Take off your headphones before you answer someone who speaks to you.
Who acts: you · What happens: take off, answer, speak · To what, where: headphones, someone, you · 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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Take | compound:prt |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 headphones | nmod:poss |
| 4 | headphones | headphone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 answer | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 answer | nsubj |
| 7 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | advcl |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 answer | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 speaks | nsubj |
| 10 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 someone | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 speaks | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | imperative | you not said here | your headphones | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headphone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | you | someone | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent someone=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-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: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): 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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