Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 10
You wait until everyone is seated and served before eating, unless the host says to start.
Who acts: You, host · What happens: wait, seat, serve, eat, say, start · To what, where: everyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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, host), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 seated | mark |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 seated | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | aux:pass |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wait | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 served | cc |
| 8 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seated | conj |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 eating | mark |
| 10 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 seated | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 12 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 15 says | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 host | det |
| 14 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wait | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 start | mark |
| 17 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 says | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | You | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seat | present · passive | everyone | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | |||||
| 3 | serve | participle | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | the host | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | start | to-infinitive | the host not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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