Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 24
At someone else's table, wait until food is offered or ask politely instead of grabbing.
Who acts: you · What happens: wait, offer, ask, grab · To what, where: table, food
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 table | case |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 table | nmod:poss |
| 3 | else | else | ADV | _ | 2 someone | advmod |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 someone | case |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 table | punct |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 offered | mark |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 offered | aux:pass |
| 11 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wait | advcl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 offered | conj |
| 14 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 13 ask | advmod |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 grabbing | mark |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | grabbing | grab | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 ask | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | someone's table | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location | ||||
| 2 | offer | present · passive | food | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | politely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grab | gerund | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:24.
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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