Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 25

Never stand chopsticks upright in rice, because in some Asian cultures it looks like a funeral custom; it is fine to ask for a fork.

Who acts: you, food · What happens: not stand, look, be, ask · To what, where: chopsticks, rice

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, food), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 stand	advmod
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stand	obj
4	upright	upright	ADV	_	2 stand	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 rice	case
6	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stand	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cultures	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 looks	mark
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 cultures	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 cultures	det
11	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cultures	amod
12	cultures	culture	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 looks	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looks	nsubj
14	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stand	advcl
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 custom	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 custom	det
17	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 custom	compound
18	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looks	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fine	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fine	expl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fine	cop
22	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stand	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 fine	csubj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 fork	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fork	det
27	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ask	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stand	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not stand	imperative	you not said here	chopsticks	rice	upright property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chopstick=Theme in rice=Destination
2	look	present	food			like a funeral custom; in some Asian cultures	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in culture=Theme
3	is	present				fine property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive				for a fork	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:25.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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