Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 13
Trying a small bite of a new food, if it is safe for you, is polite.
Who acts: bite, Trying · What happens: try, be, bite · To what, where: small bite, new food
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 (bite, Trying), 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 | Trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 polite | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bite | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bite | amod |
| 4 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trying | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 food | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bite | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trying | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 safe | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 safe | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 safe | cop |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 polite | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 safe | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 safe | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 polite | cop |
| 18 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 polite | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | gerund | a small bite of a new food | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | bite | for you; safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Trying | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bite | a new food | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |
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:13.
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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