A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 1

Families and faiths differ: some say grace before eating, so you wait quietly; a friend fasting in Ramadan deserves kindness, never teasing; with chopsticks, you never stand them upright in rice, which looks like a funeral custom in some Asian cultures.

Who acts: Families, some, grace, you, friend, rice · What happens: differ, say, eat, wait, fast, deserve · To what, where: grace, Ramadan, kindness, chopsticks, rice · 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 (Families, some, grace, 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	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 differ	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 faiths	cc
3	faiths	faith	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Families	conj
4	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 differ	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 differ	parataxis
8	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 eating	mark
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 grace	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wait	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 wait	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 wait	nsubj
14	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	conj
15	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	14 wait	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 deserves	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 friend	det
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 deserves	nsubj
19	fasting	fast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 friend	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Ramadan	case
21	Ramadan	Ramadan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 fasting	obl
22	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 differ	conj
23	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 deserves	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 teasing	punct
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 teasing	advmod
26	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 deserves	advcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 chopsticks	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 chopsticks	case
29	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stand	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 chopsticks	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 stand	nsubj
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 stand	advmod
33	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 teasing	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stand	obj
35	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stand	xcomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 rice	case
37	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stand	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 looks	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 looks	nsubj
40	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 rice	acl:relcl
41	like	like	ADP	_	44 custom	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 custom	det
43	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 custom	compound
44	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 looks	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 cultures	case
46	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	48 cultures	det
47	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 cultures	amod
48	cultures	culture	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 looks	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 differ	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	differ	present	Families and faiths				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	some	grace			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic
3	eat	gerund	grace not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	present	you			quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fast	gerund	a friend not said here		Ramadan		tree rules
6	deserve	present	a friend	kindness			tree rules
7	not tease	gerund	a friend not said here				vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	not stand	infinitive	you	chopsticks = chopstick	rice	with chopsticks; upright property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in rice=Destination
9	look	present	rice			like a funeral custom; in some Asian cultures	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in culture=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:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:1.

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. 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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