Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 7
A boy in Dublin at his friend's house waits until everyone is seated and served, eats quietly, and asks if anyone would like the last potato before taking it.
Who acts: boy, anyone · What happens: wait, seat, serve, eat, ask, like · To what, where: everyone, last potato, potato
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 (boy, anyone), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waits | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Dublin | case |
| 4 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 friend | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 10 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 seated | mark |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 seated | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seated | aux:pass |
| 14 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 waits | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 served | cc |
| 16 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 seated | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eats | punct |
| 18 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 waits | conj |
| 19 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 18 eats | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asks | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 asks | cc |
| 22 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 waits | conj |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 like | mark |
| 24 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 like | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 like | aux |
| 26 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 asks | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 potato | det |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 potato | amod |
| 29 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 like | obj |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 taking | mark |
| 31 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 like | advcl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 taking | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 waits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | a boy in Dublin at boy's friend's house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seat | present · passive | everyone | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | |||||
| 3 | serve | participle | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | eat | present | a boy in Dublin at boy's friend's house not said here | quietly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | a boy in Dublin at boy's friend's house not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | like a condition, not said to happen | would | anyone | the last potato | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot potato=Theme | ||||
| 7 | take | gerund | anyone not said here | potato | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:7.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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