Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 8
Before leaving the table early, you ask "May I please be excused?"
Who acts: you · What happens: leave, ask, excuse · To what, where: table, I · 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 leaving | mark |
| 2 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ask | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 table | det |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaving | obj |
| 5 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 leaving | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaving | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 May | punct |
| 10 | May | may | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 excused | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 excused | nsubj |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 14 excused | discourse |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 excused | aux:pass |
| 14 | excused | excuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ask | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 excused | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | you not said here | the table | early property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | excuse in a quote | may · passive | I | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:8.
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 ×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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