Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 21

A child new to the country is still learning the customs, so explain kindly how things work.

Who acts: child, things · What happens: learn, explain, work · To what, where: customs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» 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 (child, things), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 learning	nsubj
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 child	amod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 new	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 learning	aux
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 learning	advmod
9	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 customs	det
11	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 learning	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 explain	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 explain	advmod
14	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 learning	parataxis
15	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	14 explain	advmod
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 work	advmod
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 work	nsubj
18	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 explain	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 learning	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present · progressive	a child	the customs	still		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Topic
2	explain speech: assert	infinitive				kindly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	work	present	things				vn employment-95.3 «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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:21.

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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