Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 4
A quick «How's it going?» in Canada or the USA is a greeting, not a real question.
Who acts: «, quick « · What happens: go, be · To what, where: greeting
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 («, quick «), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 « | det |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 « | amod |
| 3 | « | « | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 greeting | nsubj |
| 4 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 going | advmod |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 « | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Canada | case |
| 11 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 « | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 USA | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 USA | det |
| 14 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Canada | conj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 greeting | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 greeting | det |
| 17 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 question | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 question | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 question | det |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 question | amod |
| 22 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 greeting | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 greeting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | « | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a quick « in Canada or the USA | a greeting | a real question nmod | tree rules |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-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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