Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 6
"Excuse me" is a polite way to get a stranger's attention, like a shop assistant's.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: excuse, be, get, attend · To what, where: girl, polite way, attention
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 (stranger), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 2 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | nsubj |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Excuse | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stranger | det |
| 12 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attention | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 stranger | case |
| 14 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 assistant | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 assistant | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 assistant | det |
| 18 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assistant | compound |
| 19 | assistant | assistant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | obl |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 assistant | case |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | girl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a polite way | like a shop assistant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | a stranger's attention | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | attend | a stranger | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:6.
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): R6-punct-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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