A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 6
If a family says grace (a short prayer of thanks) before eating, you wait quietly until they finish.
Who acts: family, you, pizza, thanks · What happens: say, eat, wait, finish, pray · To what, where: grace · 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 (family, you, pizza, thanks), 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 says | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wait | advcl |
| 5 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 prayer | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prayer | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prayer | amod |
| 9 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grace | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thanks | case |
| 11 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prayer | nmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 prayer | punct |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 eating | mark |
| 14 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 says | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wait | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 wait | nsubj |
| 17 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 17 wait | advmod |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 finish | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 finish | nsubj |
| 21 | finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wait | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | a family | grace | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | a family not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | present | you | quietly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | finish | present | pizza | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | pray | thanks | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=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:6.
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 ×2, 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.
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