Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 10
When you are introduced to someone, you look at them, smile and say "Nice to meet you".
Who acts: you · What happens: introduce, look, smile, say, meet · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 introduced | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 introduced | aux:pass |
| 4 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 look | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 someone | case |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 introduced | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 introduced | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smile | punct |
| 13 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 look | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 say | cc |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Nice | punct |
| 17 | Nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 say | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 meet | mark |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Nice | acl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 meet | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Nice | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed form=decl
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | present · passive | you | to someone | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to someone=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | present | you | at People | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smile | infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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:123-neighbours-and-new-people.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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