Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 13
To ask a stranger something, you start with "Excuse me".
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, start, excuse · To what, where: something, stranger, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 ask | mark |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 start | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stranger | det |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | iobj |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 ask | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 start | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 start | nsubj |
| 8 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Excuse | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Excuse | punct |
| 11 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 start | obl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Excuse | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Excuse | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 start | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | you not said here | something | a stranger | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start | present | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:13.
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 ×4, 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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