Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 17

A boy in Ohio was so keen to be polite that he answered every question from a friendly man at the park, including his address; the man turned up near his house, and his parents had to call the police.

Who acts: boy, man, parents · What happens: be, answer, turn up, have, call, address · To what, where: question, house, police · 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 (boy, man, parents), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keen	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keen	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 keen	advmod
7	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 polite	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 polite	cop
10	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keen	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 answered	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 answered	nsubj
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keen	advcl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 question	det
15	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 park	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 park	det
22	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 address	punct
24	including	include	ADP	_	26 address	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 address	nmod:poss
26	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 turned	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turned	nsubj
30	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keen	parataxis
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 turned	compound:prt
32	near	near	ADP	_	34 house	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 house	nmod:poss
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turned	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 had	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 parents	nmod:poss
38	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 turned	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 call	mark
41	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 had	xcomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 police	det
43	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 call	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 keen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	a boy in Ohio			keen property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	a boy in Ohio not said here			polite property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	boy	every question		from a friendly man at the park and boy's address	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
4	turn up	past	the man		boy's house		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near house=Location
5	have	past	boy's parents				tree rules
6	call	to-infinitive	boy's parents not said here	the police			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient
7	address		boy				nom address «communication transitive»: poss=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:17.

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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