Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 13

You may say hello to a stranger, but you never stop to chat, go anywhere or take anything, and you tell a trusted adult.

Who acts: You · What happens: say, not stop, chat, go, take, tell · To what, where: hello, stranger, anything, trusted adult · 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stranger	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stranger	det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 stop	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 stop	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 stop	advmod
12	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 chat	mark
14	chat	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stop	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 chat	conj
17	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 go	advmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 take	cc
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	conj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 take	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 adult	det
26	trusted	trusted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 adult	amod
27	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	may	You	hello	a stranger		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hello=Topic to stranger=Recipient
2	not stop	present	you				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	chat speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	infinitive	you not said here			anywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	infinitive	you not said here	anything			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	present	you		a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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:13.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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