A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 22

On the phone you never tell a stranger that you are home alone or that the family is away.

Who acts: you, family · What happens: not tell, be · To what, where: stranger, phone · 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, family), 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	_	3 phone	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phone	det
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stranger	det
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 alone	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 alone	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 alone	cop
12	home	home	ADV	_	13 alone	advmod
13	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tell	ccomp
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 away	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 away	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 family	det
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 away	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 away	cop
19	away	away	ADV	_	13 alone	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present	you	a stranger	the phone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient
2	is	present	you			alone, home property	tree rules
3	is	present	the family			away property	tree rules

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:22.

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): R8-pos-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.

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