Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 4

A boy in Manchester meets his teacher in the supermarket on Saturday; he smiles and says "Hello, Mrs Patel", then lets her get on with her shopping.

Who acts: boy, Mrs · What happens: meet, smile, say, let, get on, shop · To what, where: teacher, supermarket · 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, Mrs), 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	5 meets	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Manchester	case
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teacher	nmod:poss
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meets	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 supermarket	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 supermarket	det
10	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meets	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 Saturday	case
12	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 meets	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 smiles	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 smiles	nsubj
15	smiles	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 meets	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 says	cc
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 smiles	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Hello	punct
19	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	17 says	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Mrs	punct
21	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Hello	vocative
22	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Mrs	flat
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Mrs	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lets	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 lets	advmod
26	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 meets	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 get	nsubj
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 lets	xcomp
29	on	on	ADV	_	28 get	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 shopping	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shopping	nmod:poss
32	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 meets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	a boy in Manchester	boy's teacher	the supermarket	saturday		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Co-Agent
2	smile	present	boy					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	boy not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	let	present	a boy in Manchester not said here			then		tree rules
5	get on	infinitive	Mrs				with Mrs's shopping	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	shop		Mrs					nom shopping «act intransitive»: 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:4.

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, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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