Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 16
"How's it going?" from someone walking past is a greeting, and "Good, thanks!" is the expected answer.
Who acts: child, going · What happens: go, walk, be, expect · To what, where: someone, greeting, expected answer · 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 (child, going), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 going | advmod |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 greeting | csubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 greeting | case |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 going | obl |
| 10 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 someone | acl |
| 11 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 someone | flat |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 greeting | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 greeting | det |
| 14 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thanks | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 answer | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Good | punct |
| 18 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thanks | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thanks | punct |
| 20 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 greeting | discourse |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 thanks | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thanks | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 answer | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 answer | det |
| 25 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 answer | amod |
| 26 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 greeting | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 greeting | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | child | someone | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | going | a greeting and the expected answer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | going not said here | the expected answer | 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:16.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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