Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 5

You say "Excuse me" and wait for people to move when you need to get past them.

Who acts: You, people · What happens: say, excuse, wait, move, need, get · To what, where: me · 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, people), 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 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Excuse	punct
4	Excuse	excuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 Excuse	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Excuse	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wait	cc
8	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 move	mark
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 move	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 move	mark
12	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wait	advcl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 need	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 need	nsubj
15	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 move	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 need	xcomp
18	past	past	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	You			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	excuse in a quote	infinitive		me		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	wait	infinitive	You not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	move	to-infinitive	people			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	need	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		past people	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past they=Destination

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:5.

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 ×3, R7-rel-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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