More greetings and making introductions, sentence 1
To introduce yourself, you say your name and maybe one thing about you: "Hi, I'm Sam, I'm in Year 5 and I love football"; people find it easier to talk once they know your name.
Who acts: you, I, people, football, your · What happens: introduce, say, be, love, find, talk · To what, where: yourself, name, Sam, football · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» 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, I, people, football), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 introduce | mark |
| 2 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | advcl |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 introduce | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 introduce | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thing | cc |
| 10 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 12 thing | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 thing | nummod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 thing | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sam | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sam | punct |
| 17 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 21 Sam | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hi | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 Sam | nsubj |
| 20 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Sam | cop |
| 21 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Year | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 Year | nsubj |
| 24 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 Year | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Year | case |
| 26 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sam | parataxis |
| 27 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 Year | flat |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 love | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 love | nsubj |
| 30 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | parataxis |
| 31 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 love | obj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 football | punct |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 find | punct |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 find | nsubj |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 love | parataxis |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 find | expl |
| 37 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 find | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 talk | mark |
| 39 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 easier | xcomp |
| 40 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 42 know | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 know | nsubj |
| 42 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 talk | advcl |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 name | nmod:poss |
| 44 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 know | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | to-infinitive | you not said here | yourself | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | your name and one thing about you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | I | Sam | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | I | in Year | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | present | I | football | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find | present | people | football | easy property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | talk | to-infinitive | football not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | know | present | people | your name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | name | your | 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:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:1.
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, 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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