Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things, sentence 4

If a stranger on a bus asks where you live or tries to get too friendly, you do not have to answer; move near the driver or another adult.

Who acts: stranger, you · What happens: ask, live, try, get, not have, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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 (stranger, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 asks	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bus	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bus	det
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stranger	nmod
7	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 have	advcl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 live	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 live	nsubj
10	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 asks	ccomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 tries	cc
12	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 live	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tries	xcomp
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 friendly	advmod
16	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 asks	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 have	advmod
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	to	to	PART	_	23 answer	mark
23	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 move	punct
25	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 have	parataxis
26	near	near	ADP	_	28 driver	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 driver	det
28	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 move	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 adult	cc
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 adult	det
31	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 driver	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	a stranger on a bus		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	present	you		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	present	you not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	friendly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	not have	present · do-support	you		tree rules
6	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	move	infinitive		near the driver or another adult	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near driver=Trajectory

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:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:4.

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): no change. 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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