Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 15
If you must interrupt, you say "Excuse me" or "Sorry to interrupt" first; when it is urgent, like someone being hurt, you interrupt straight away.
Who acts: you, parent · What happens: interrupt, say, excuse, be, hurt · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
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, parent), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 interrupt | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 interrupt | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 interrupt | aux |
| 4 | interrupt | interrupt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 urgent | parataxis |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Excuse | punct |
| 9 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Excuse | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Excuse | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Sorry | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sorry | punct |
| 14 | Sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Excuse | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 interrupt | mark |
| 16 | interrupt | interrupt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Sorry | xcomp |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 first | punct |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 interrupt | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 interrupt | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 urgent | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 urgent | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 urgent | cop |
| 23 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 urgent | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 someone | case |
| 26 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 urgent | conj |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 hurt | aux:pass |
| 28 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 someone | acl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 interrupt | punct |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 interrupt | nsubj |
| 31 | interrupt | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 urgent | advcl |
| 32 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 33 away | advmod |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 interrupt | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 urgent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt a condition, not said to happen | must | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 4 | interrupt in a quote | to-infinitive | first property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | present | parent | urgent property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hurt | gerund · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 7 | interrupt | present | you | away property | 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:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.lesson:15.
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, R6-punct-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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