Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 17
From a shared dish you use the serving spoon and take a fair share, and you offer the last piece before taking it.
Who acts: you · What happens: share, use, take, offer · To what, where: serving spoon, shared dish, fair share, last piece, spoon
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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 dish | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dish | det |
| 3 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dish | amod |
| 4 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 use | nsubj |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spoon | det |
| 8 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoon | compound |
| 9 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 use | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 share | det |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 share | amod |
| 14 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 offer | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 offer | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 offer | nsubj |
| 18 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 piece | det |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 piece | amod |
| 21 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offer | obj |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 taking | mark |
| 23 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 offer | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 taking | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | use | present | you | the serving spoon | a shared dish | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | you not said here | a fair share | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | ||||
| 4 | offer | present | you | the last piece | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | gerund | you not said here | spoon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:17.
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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