Greeting friends and relatives, sentence 9
In a busy corridor you walk closer or wave instead of shouting.
Who acts: you · What happens: walk, wave, shout · To what, where: busy corridor
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 (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 | _ | 4 corridor | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 corridor | det |
| 3 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 corridor | amod |
| 4 | corridor | corridor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walk | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 walk | nsubj |
| 6 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 walk | advmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 wave | cc |
| 9 | wave | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 walk | conj |
| 10 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 9 wave | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 shouting | case |
| 12 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wave | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | you | a busy corridor | close property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corridor=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | wave | infinitive | you not said here | instead property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.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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