Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 17
When a classmate stammers, wait patiently and do not finish their words.
Who acts: classmate, you, people · What happens: stammer, wait, not finish, word · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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 (classmate, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 stammers | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 classmate | det |
| 3 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stammers | nsubj |
| 4 | stammers | stammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stammers | punct |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 6 wait | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 finish | cc |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 finish | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 finish | advmod |
| 11 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wait | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 words | nmod:poss |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 finish | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stammer speech: other | present | a classmate | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wait | imperative | you not said here | patiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not finish | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | people's words | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality word=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | word | people | nom word «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:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:17.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/17/