Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 7
After a burp or passing wind by accident, you say "Excuse me" quietly.
Who acts: you, accident · What happens: say, excuse, wind · To what, where: burp, 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, accident), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 wind | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 3 | burp | burp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 passing | cc |
| 5 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burp | conj |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burp | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 accident | case |
| 8 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wind | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wind | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Excuse | punct |
| 13 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 say | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Excuse | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Excuse | punct |
| 16 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 13 Excuse | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | you | burp or passing and a wind by accident | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | me | quietly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wind | accident | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: by=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:7.
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. 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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