Greeting friends and relatives, sentence 15

When a relative phones on your birthday, you thank them for remembering and tell them about your day.

Who acts: relative, you · What happens: phone, thank, remember, tell · To what, where: birthday, Relatives · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting friends and relatives» 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 (relative, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 phones	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 relative	det
3	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 phones	nsubj
4	phones	phone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thank	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 birthday	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 birthday	nmod:poss
7	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 phones	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thank	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 thank	nsubj
10	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thank	obj
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 remembering	mark
13	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thank	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thank	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 day	nmod:poss
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thank	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	phone	present	a relative		your birthday		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	thank speech: thank	present	you	Relatives = relative			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	remember	gerund	you not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	Relatives = relative		day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.lesson:15.

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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