Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 18

Say «Please» when you ask and «Thank you» when you get something, in shops and cafés too; in parts of England people also say «Ta» for thank you.

Who acts: you, people · What happens: say, ask, thank, get · To what, where: you, something, shops, Ta, parts · 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 (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	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 Please	punct
3	Please	please	INTJ	_	1 Say	discourse
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 Please	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 ask	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 ask	nsubj
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Thank	cc
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 Thank	punct
10	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ask	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 Thank	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 Thank	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 get	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
15	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Thank	conj
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 get	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shops	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 shops	case
19	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 get	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cafés	cc
21	cafés	café	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shops	conj
22	too	too	ADV	_	15 get	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 parts	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 parts	case
25	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 say	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 people	case
27	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 parts	nmod
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 say	nsubj
29	also	also	ADV	_	30 say	advmod
30	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 Ta	punct
32	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 say	obj
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 Ta	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 thank	case
35	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 say	parataxis
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 thank	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	you				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	you not said here		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	get	present	you	something		shops and cafés	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	present	people	Ta		parts England	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent ta=Theme in part=Manner
6	thank speech: thank	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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:18.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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