Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 6
Use "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms" or "Dr" with the surname until an adult asks you to use their first name.
Who acts: you, adult, adults · What happens: use, ask, name · To what, where: Mr, you, first name
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, adult, adults), 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 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mr | punct |
| 3 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Use | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mr | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mrs | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mrs | punct |
| 7 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mr | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mrs | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ms | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ms | punct |
| 11 | Ms | Ms | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mr | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ms | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 Dr | cc |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Dr | punct |
| 15 | Dr | Dr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mr | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Dr | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 surname | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 surname | det |
| 19 | surname | surname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Use | obl |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 asks | mark |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 adult | det |
| 22 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asks | nsubj |
| 23 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Use | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 asks | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 use | mark |
| 26 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 asks | xcomp |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 name | nmod:poss |
| 28 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 name | amod |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 use | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | Mr and Ms or Dr | with the surname | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mr=Patient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | a adult | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | a adult not said here | adults's first name | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 4 | name | adults = adult | nom name «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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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