Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 13

When an adult says «this is my partner», a partner means the person they live with or are a couple with.

Who acts: adult, this, partner, Greetings · What happens: say, be, mean, live · To what, where: person, couple · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners» 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 (adult, this, partner, Greetings), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 says	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 means	advcl
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 partner	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 partner	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 partner	cop
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 partner	nmod:poss
9	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 partner	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 partner	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 partner	det
13	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	nsubj
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	obj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 live	nsubj
18	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 person	acl:relcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	18 live	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 couple	cc
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 couple	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 couple	det
23	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	23 couple	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a adult			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	this		« my partner	tree rules
3	mean	present	a partner	the person		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic
4	live	present	Greetings = greeting	the person not said here		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme person=Location
5	is a	present	a partner not said here	a couple		tree rules

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:296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.lesson:13.

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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