Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 19
Start with «Excuse me» to politely get a stranger's attention, such as a shop assistant.
Who acts: you, stranger · What happens: start, get, attend · To what, where: attention
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, stranger), 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 | Start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 Excuse | case |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Excuse | punct |
| 4 | Excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Start | obl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Excuse | flat |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Excuse | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 8 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Start | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attention | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 stranger | case |
| 13 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 assistant | punct |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 assistant | case |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 such | fixed |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 assistant | det |
| 18 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assistant | compound |
| 19 | assistant | assistant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attention | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | imperative | you not said here | with Excuse | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with excuse=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | a stranger's attention | such a shop assistant; politely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | attend | a stranger | such a shop assistant | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent such=obl |
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:19.
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): 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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