Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 12
In English-speaking countries looking at a person's face while you talk shows you are listening and being honest.
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, look, talk, show, listen, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» 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 | _ | 5 countries | case |
| 2 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speaking | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 countries | amod |
| 5 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | obl |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 shows | nsubj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 person | det |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 person | case |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 talk | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 talk | nsubj |
| 14 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 looking | advcl |
| 15 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 listening | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 listening | aux |
| 18 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 shows | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 honest | cc |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 honest | cop |
| 21 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 listening | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | look | gerund | at a person's face; in speaking countries | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in country=Theme | |||||
| 3 | talk | present | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | show | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | listen | present · progressive | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | gerund | you not said here | honest property | tree rules |
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:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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