Video calls and visiting a friend's house, sentence 3

Being a guest never means doing something dangerous or against your family's rules: you say no and can phone your parents to go home.

Who acts: you, family · What happens: be, not mean, do, say, phone, go · To what, where: guest, something, no, parents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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	Being	be	AUX	VerbForm=Ger	3 guest	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 guest	det
3	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	csubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 means	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	xcomp
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 doing	obj
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 rules	cc
10	against	against	ADP	_	14 rules	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 family	nmod:poss
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rules	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 family	case
14	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 something	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
18	no	no	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 say	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 phone	cc
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 phone	aux
21	phone	phone	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	conj
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 parents	nmod:poss
23	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 phone	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 go	mark
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 phone	advcl
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		a guest			tree rules
2	not mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	gerund		something			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	present	you	no			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
5	phone	can	you not said here		your parents		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
6	go	to-infinitive	you not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	rule		your family				nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.lesson:3.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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