A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 17

On a crowded bus you speak quietly on the phone and keep it short.

Who acts: you · What happens: speak, keep · To what, where: crowded bus, call · 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), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 bus	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bus	det
3	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bus	amod
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speak	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
6	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	6 speak	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 phone	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 phone	det
10	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speak	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 keep	cc
12	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 keep	obj
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keep	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 speak	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	speak speech: other	present	you			a crowded bus		on the phone; quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	you not said here	call				short property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:17.

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): no change. 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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