Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 14

You let people finish their own sentences, especially someone who stammers (gets stuck on sounds or repeats them while speaking).

Who acts: You, people · What happens: let, finish, stammer, stick, repeat, speaking · To what, where: people, own sentences, sounds, sentences

This is a sentence of the lesson «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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, people), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 let	obj
4	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sentences	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sentences	amod
7	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 finish	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 someone	punct
9	especially	especially	ADV	_	10 someone	advmod
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 finish	parataxis
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stammers	nsubj
12	stammers	stammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 someone	acl:relcl
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 stuck	punct
14	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stuck	aux:pass
15	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 someone	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 sounds	case
17	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stuck	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 repeats	cc
19	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stuck	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 repeats	obj
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 speaking	mark
22	speaking	speaking	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 repeats	advcl
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 stuck	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	present	You	people		tree rules
2	finish	infinitive	people not said here	people's own sentences		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sentence=Eventuality
3	stammer speech: other	present				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stick	present · passive			sounds	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: on sound=Destination
5	repeat	present		sentences = sentence		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
6	speaking	gerund				tree rules
7	sentence		people			nom sentence «communication transitive»: 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:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.lesson:14.

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. 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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