A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 18
If a friend phones during a family meal, you ask if you may call back later.
Who acts: friend, you · What happens: phone, ask, call back
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 (friend, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 phones | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 phones | nsubj |
| 4 | phones | phone | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ask | advcl |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 8 meal | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 meal | det |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meal | compound |
| 8 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 phones | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 phones | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 ask | nsubj |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 call | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 call | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 call | aux |
| 15 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ask | ccomp |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 call | advmod |
| 17 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 call | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | phone a condition, not said to happen | present | a friend | during a family meal | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | call back speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | may | you | late property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:18.
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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