Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 11

If a number you do not know calls or messages you, let a parent answer or ignore it, because unknown callers can be scammers.

Who acts: you, number, unknown callers · What happens: not know, call, message, let, answer, ignore · To what, where: number, you, scammers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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, number, unknown callers), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 calls	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calls	nsubj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 number	acl:relcl
8	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 let	advcl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 messages	cc
10	messages	message	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 calls	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 messages	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 parent	det
15	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answer	compound
16	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 ignore	cc
18	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 answer	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ignore	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 scammers	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 scammers	mark
22	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 callers	amod
23	callers	caller	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 scammers	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 scammers	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 scammers	cop
26	scammers	scammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ignore	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	you	a number not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus
2	call a condition, not said to happen	present	a number		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	message	present	a number not said here	you	tree rules
4	let	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	ignore	infinitive	you not said here	number	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	is a	can	unknown callers	scammers	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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:11.

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 ×2, 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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