Classroom rules and homework, sentence 9
If you are told off for something you did not do, you stay calm and explain politely later, in private if possible, because a calm talk is more likely to be heard.
Who acts: you, calm talk · What happens: tell off, not do, stay, explain, be, hear · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» 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, calm talk), 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 told | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stay | advcl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 told | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 told | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 do | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 something | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stay | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 stay | nsubj |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stay | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 explain | cc |
| 17 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stay | conj |
| 18 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 19 later | advmod |
| 19 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 explain | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 private | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 private | case |
| 22 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 told | parataxis |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 possible | mark |
| 24 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 private | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 likely | punct |
| 26 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 32 likely | mark |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 talk | det |
| 28 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 talk | amod |
| 29 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 likely | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 likely | cop |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 likely | advmod |
| 32 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 told | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 heard | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 heard | aux:pass |
| 35 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 likely | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell off speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | you | for something | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not do | past · do-support | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stay | present | you | calm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | present | you not said here | late property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | a calm talk | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hear | to-infinitive · passive | a calm talk not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
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:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:9.
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 ×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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