A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 15
Unknown callers could be scammers, so a parent answers or the call is ignored.
Who acts: Unknown callers, parent · What happens: be, answer, ignore · To what, where: scammers, call
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 (Unknown callers, parent), 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 | Unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 callers | amod |
| 2 | callers | caller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scammers | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 scammers | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scammers | cop |
| 5 | scammers | scammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ignored | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answers | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 answers | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 answers | det |
| 9 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answers | nsubj |
| 10 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ignored | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 answers | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 call | det |
| 13 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ignored | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ignored | aux:pass |
| 15 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scammers | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | could | Unknown callers | scammers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | parent | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ignore | present · passive | the call | vn neglect-75.1 «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:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:15.
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): R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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