Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 2
When you meet someone new, you look at them, smile and say "Nice to meet you"; if you forget their name, you simply ask again, because it happens to everyone.
Who acts: you, it, neighbours · What happens: meet, look, smile, say, forget, ask · To what, where: someone, you, name · 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, it, neighbours), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 meet | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 meet | nsubj |
| 3 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | advcl |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 meet | obj |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 someone | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meet | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 look | nsubj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smile | punct |
| 12 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 look | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 say | cc |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | conj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nice | punct |
| 16 | Nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 say | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 meet | mark |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Nice | acl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 meet | obj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nice | punct |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 ask | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 forget | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 forget | nsubj |
| 24 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 ask | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forget | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forget | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 ask | nsubj |
| 29 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 30 ask | advmod |
| 30 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | parataxis |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 ask | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 happens | punct |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 happens | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 happens | nsubj |
| 35 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 ask | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 everyone | case |
| 37 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 35 happens | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | meet | present | you | someone | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | present | you | at neighbours = neighbour | 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 | |||||
| 6 | forget a condition, not said to happen | present | you | neighbours's name | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | present | you | again | simply property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 8 | happen | present | it | to everyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | name | neighbours = neighbour | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:2.
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.
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