Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 15

When the head teacher walks into the classroom, pupils stop talking and look up, and some schools ask them to stand.

Who acts: head teacher, pupils, schools · What happens: walk, stop, talk, look up, ask, stand · To what, where: classroom, teacher

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 (head teacher, pupils, schools), 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 walks	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teacher	compound
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walks	nsubj
5	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 classroom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 classroom	det
8	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walks	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
10	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stop	nsubj
11	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 look	cc
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 talking	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 look	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ask	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 schools	det
19	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ask	nsubj
20	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ask	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 stand	mark
23	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ask	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	walk	present	the head teacher		into the classroom result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into classroom=Result
2	stop	present	pupils			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	talk	gerund	pupils not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look up	infinitive	pupils not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	ask speech: ask	present	some schools	teacher		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	stand not said to happen	to-infinitive	some schools not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:15.

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): 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.

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