Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 8
When someone compliments you, say «Thank you» instead of disagreeing.
Who acts: someone, you · What happens: compliment, say, thank, disagree · To what, where: you · 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 (someone, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 compliments | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 compliments | nsubj |
| 3 | compliments | compliment | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 compliments | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 compliments | punct |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Thank | punct |
| 8 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 Thank | obj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 Thank | punct |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 13 disagreeing | mark |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 disagreeing | case |
| 13 | disagreeing | disagree | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 say | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compliment | present | someone | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 4 | disagree | gerund | you not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «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:8.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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