Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 12
It is fine to ask how to say a name that is hard for you, and saying it properly shows respect.
Who acts: name, saying · What happens: be, ask, say, show · To what, where: name, face, respect · 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 (name, saying), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fine | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fine | csubj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 say | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hard | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hard | cop |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 hard | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saying | cc |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 shows | csubj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saying | obj |
| 20 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 21 shows | advmod |
| 21 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | parataxis |
| 22 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shows | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | a name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | present | a name | for you; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | face | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||||
| 6 | show | present | saying | respect | properly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=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:123-neighbours-and-new-people.lesson:12.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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