Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 11
You ask for things to be passed instead of reaching across the table.
Who acts: You · What happens: ask, pass, reach · To what, where: table
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), 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 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 things | case |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ask | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 passed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 passed | aux:pass |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 things | acl |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 reaching | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 instead | fixed |
| 10 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 passed | advcl |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 table | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 table | det |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reaching | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | You | for things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive · passive | You not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | You not said here | the table | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent across table=Path |
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:11.
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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