Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 16
Calling a teacher "Mum" or "Dad" by accident happens to almost everyone, so you laugh it off and carry on.
Who acts: Calling, you · What happens: call, happen, laugh off, carry on · To what, where: teacher, accident · 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 (Calling, 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 | Calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 happens | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mum | punct |
| 5 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mum | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 Dad | cc |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dad | punct |
| 9 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Mum | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dad | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 accident | case |
| 12 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happens | obl |
| 13 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 everyone | case |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 everyone | advmod |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 happens | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laugh | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 laugh | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 laugh | nsubj |
| 20 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 happens | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laugh | obj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 laugh | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 carry | cc |
| 24 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 laugh | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 carry | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | a teacher | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme mum=Result | |||||
| 2 | happen | present | Calling | by accident; to everyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by accident=Location | ||||
| 3 | laugh off | present | you | accident | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry on | infinitive | you not said here | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: 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:16.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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