Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 17

Chopsticks are never stuck upright in rice, because in some Asian cultures that looks like a funeral custom, and it is fine to ask for a fork.

Who acts: Asian cultures · What happens: not stick, look, be, ask · To what, where: Chopsticks, rice

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 (Asian cultures), 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	Chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stuck	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 stuck	advmod
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upright	upright	ADV	_	4 stuck	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 rice	case
7	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cultures	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	15 looks	mark
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 cultures	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 cultures	det
12	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cultures	amod
13	cultures	culture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stuck	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 looks	nsubj
15	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cultures	acl:relcl
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 custom	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 custom	det
18	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 custom	compound
19	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looks	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fine	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fine	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fine	expl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fine	cop
24	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 looks	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 ask	mark
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 fine	csubj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 fork	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fork	det
29	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ask	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not stick	present · passive		Chopsticks	rice	in some Asian cultures; upright property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in rice=Destination
2	look	present	some Asian cultures			like a funeral custom	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	some Asian cultures not said here			fine property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive				for a fork	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:17.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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