A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 0
At someone else's table you wait until food is offered, follow the family's customs, and say "No, thank you" instead of "I hate that", because a gentle refusal does not hurt the cook.
Who acts: you, I, gentle refusal · What happens: wait, offer, follow, say, thank, hate · To what, where: table, food, customs, you, that, cook · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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, I, gentle refusal), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 table | case |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 table | nmod:poss |
| 3 | else | else | ADV | _ | 2 someone | advmod |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 someone | case |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wait | nsubj |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 offered | mark |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 offered | aux:pass |
| 11 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wait | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 follow | punct |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wait | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 family | det |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 customs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 family | case |
| 17 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 follow | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 say | cc |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 wait | conj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 No | punct |
| 22 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 thank | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thank | punct |
| 24 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 say | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 thank | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 thank | punct |
| 27 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 31 hate | mark |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 instead | fixed |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 hate | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 hate | nsubj |
| 31 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 thank | conj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 hate | obj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 hate | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 hurt | punct |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 41 hurt | mark |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 refusal | det |
| 37 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 refusal | amod |
| 38 | refusal | refusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hurt | nsubj |
| 39 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 hurt | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 hurt | advmod |
| 41 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 say | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 cook | det |
| 43 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hurt | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | you | someone's table | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location | ||||
| 2 | offer | present · passive | food | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | infinitive | you not said here | the family's customs | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hate in a quote | present | I | that | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | not hurt | present · do-support | a gentle refusal | the cook | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cook=Patient |
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:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:0.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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