A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 12
Chopsticks are never stuck upright in rice, and it is fine to ask for a fork.
What happens: not stick, be, ask · To what, where: Chopsticks, rice
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: 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 | Chopsticks | chopstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stuck | aux:pass |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 stuck | advmod |
| 4 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 4 stuck | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rice | case |
| 7 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fine | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fine | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fine | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fine | cop |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stuck | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ask | mark |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fine | csubj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 fork | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fork | det |
| 17 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stick | present · passive | Chopsticks | rice | upright property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in rice=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | for a fork | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:12.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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