Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 19
Being polite to adults never means you must give personal details, go anywhere with them or keep their secrets.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not mean, give, go, keep · To what, where: personal details, secrets · 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 polite | cop |
| 2 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 adults | case |
| 4 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 polite | obl |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 means | advmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | ccomp |
| 10 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 details | amod |
| 11 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | conj |
| 14 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 keep | cc |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 secrets | nmod:poss |
| 20 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 keep | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | to adults; polite property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | give | must | you | personal details | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | you not said here | with details = detail; anywhere property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | details's secrets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
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:19.
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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