Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 20
Children who never greet or answer adults are often misunderstood as rude or upset, even when they are only shy.
Who acts: Children · What happens: not greet, answer, misunderstand, be · To what, where: adults, Children
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 (Children), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 misunderstood | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 greet | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 greet | advmod |
| 4 | greet | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Children | acl:relcl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 answer | cc |
| 6 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 greet | conj |
| 7 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 answer | obj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 misunderstood | aux:pass |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 misunderstood | advmod |
| 10 | misunderstood | misunderstand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 rude | case |
| 12 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 misunderstood | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 upset | cc |
| 14 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rude | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shy | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 shy | advmod |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 shy | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shy | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 shy | cop |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 shy | advmod |
| 21 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 misunderstood | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 misunderstood | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not greet speech: greet | present | Children | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | Children not said here | adults | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent adult=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | misunderstand | present · passive | Children | as rude; often property | vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as rude=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Children = child | shy property | tree rules |
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:20.
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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