Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / school / Everyday / Excuse me, and good manners at the table / 2

Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 2

You ask "Could you please pass the salt?" instead of reaching across, you take a fair share from a shared dish with the serving spoon, and you offer the last piece to others before taking it.

Who acts: You · What happens: ask, pass, reach, take, share, offer · To what, where: salt, fair share, shared dish, last piece, others, piece · 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjpunctauxnsubjdiscourseccompdetobjpunctpunctmarkfixedadvcladvmodpunctnsubjccompdetamodobjcasedetamodnmodcasedetcompoundnmodpunctccnsubjconjdetamodobjcaseoblmarkadvclobjpunctrootYouPRONaskVERB"PUNCTCouldAUXyouPRONpleaseINTJpassVERBtheDETsaltNOUN?PUNCT"PUNCTinsteadADVofADPreachingVERBacrossADV,PUNCTyouPRONtakeVERBaDETfairADJshareNOUNfromADPaDETsharedVERBdishNOUNwithADPtheDETservingNOUNspoonNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJyouPRONofferVERBtheDETlastADJpieceNOUNtoADPothersNOUNbeforeSCONJtakingVERBitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs2 asknsubj
2askaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3""PUNCT_7 passpunct
4CouldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin7 passaux
5youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs7 passnsubj
6pleasepleaseINTJ_7 passdiscourse
7passpassVERBVerbForm=Inf2 askccomp
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 saltdet
9saltsaltNOUNNumber=Sing7 passobj
10??PUNCT_7 passpunct
11""PUNCT_7 passpunct
12insteadinsteadADVExtPos=SCONJ14 reachingmark
13ofofADP_12 insteadfixed
14reachingreachVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 passadvcl
15acrossacrossADV_14 reachingadvmod
16,,PUNCT_18 takepunct
17youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs18 takensubj
18taketakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 askccomp
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 sharedet
20fairfairADJDegree=Pos21 shareamod
21shareshareNOUNNumber=Sing18 takeobj
22fromfromADP_25 dishcase
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 dishdet
24sharedshareVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 dishamod
25dishdishNOUNNumber=Sing21 sharenmod
26withwithADP_29 spooncase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 spoondet
28servingservingNOUNNumber=Sing29 spooncompound
29spoonspoonNOUNNumber=Sing25 dishnmod
30,,PUNCT_33 offerpunct
31andandCCONJ_33 offercc
32youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs33 offernsubj
33offerofferVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 takeconj
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 piecedet
35lastlastADJDegree=Pos36 pieceamod
36piecepieceNOUNNumber=Sing33 offerobj
37totoADP_38 otherscase
38othersotherNOUNNumber=Plur33 offerobl
39beforebeforeSCONJ_40 takingmark
40takingtakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part33 offeradvcl
41ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 takingobj
42..PUNCT_2 askpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askpresentYouvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2pass in a quotecouldyouthe saltvn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme salt=Trajectory
3reachgerundyou not said hereacross propertyvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4takepresentyoua fair sharea shared dish with the serving spoonvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent share=Theme from dish=Initial_Location
5shareparticipletree rules
6offerpresentyouthe last pieceto others goalvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to other=Goal
7takegerundyou not said herepiecevn 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:2.

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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/2/