Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 0
On the bus or in a shop you speak quietly and keep a call short, and you let a parent answer calls or messages from numbers you do not know, because they could be scammers.
Who acts: you, numbers · What happens: speak, keep, let, answer, not know, be · To what, where: bus, call, parent calls, numbers, scammers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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, numbers), 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 bus | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bus | det |
| 3 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speak | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 shop | cc |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 shop | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shop | det |
| 7 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bus | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 speak | nsubj |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 9 speak | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 keep | cc |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 speak | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 call | det |
| 14 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obj |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 let | nsubj |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 speak | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 parent | det |
| 21 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 calls | compound |
| 22 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 23 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 answer | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 messages | cc |
| 25 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 calls | conj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 numbers | case |
| 27 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 calls | nmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 know | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 know | advmod |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 numbers | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 scammers | punct |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 scammers | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 scammers | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 scammers | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 scammers | cop |
| 37 | scammers | scammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 let | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | you | the bus or a shop | quietly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | a call | short property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | |||
| 3 | let | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | parent calls or messages | numbers | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | not know | present · do-support | you | numbers not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | could | numbers = number | scammers | 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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:0.
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 ×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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