Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 9
In a shop you greet the shopkeeper before asking for what you need.
Who acts: you · What happens: greet, ask, need · To what, where: shopkeeper, shop
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 shop | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shop | det |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 greet | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 greet | nsubj |
| 5 | greet | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shopkeeper | det |
| 7 | shopkeeper | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 greet | obj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 asking | mark |
| 9 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 greet | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 asking | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 need | nsubj |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 greet | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | present | you | the shopkeeper | a shop | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shopkeeper=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | need | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:9.
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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