Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 22

Someone's «ex» is a boyfriend, girlfriend or partner they used to be with, and «not for little ears» means grown-up talk that is not for children.

Who acts: ex, girlfriend, little ears, grown talk · What happens: be, use, mean, grow, not be · To what, where: boyfriend, grown talk

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 (ex, girlfriend, little ears, grown talk), 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	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 ex	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Someone	case
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 ex	punct
4	ex	ex	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boyfriend	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 ex	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boyfriend	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boyfriend	det
8	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 girlfriend	punct
10	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boyfriend	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 partner	cc
12	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 girlfriend	conj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boyfriend	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 be	mark
16	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 used	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	16 be	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 means	cc
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 ears	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 ears	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 ears	case
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ears	amod
24	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 means	nsubj
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 ears	punct
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boyfriend	conj
27	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 talk	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 up	punct
29	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grown	compound
30	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 means	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 children	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 children	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 children	advmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 children	case
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 talk	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 boyfriend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Someone's ex	a boyfriend and girlfriend or partner		tree rules
2	use	past	girlfriend	a boyfriend and girlfriend or partner not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boyfriend=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	be	to-infinitive	girlfriend not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	mean	present	little ears	grown talk		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Topic
5	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not is	present	grown talk		for children	tree rules

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:22.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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