Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 15

Whether two grown-ups will marry is their private business; asking can make them shy, so if a little one asks, kindly change the subject.

Who acts: two grown ups, asking, little one · What happens: grow, marry, be, ask, make, change · To what, where: private business, ups, subject

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 (two grown ups, asking, little one), 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 marry	mark
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ups	nummod
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ups	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct
5	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 marry	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 marry	aux
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 business	csubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 business	cop
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 business	nmod:poss
10	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 business	amod
11	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 business	punct
13	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 make	csubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 business	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 make	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 change	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	27 change	advmod
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 asks	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asks	nsubj
24	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 change	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asks	punct
26	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	27 change	advmod
27	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 make	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 subject	det
29	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 change	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 business	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marry	future	two grown ups			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present		ups's private business		tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	can	asking	ups = up	shy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
6	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	a little one			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	change	infinitive		the subject	kindly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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:15.

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): R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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