Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 17

To get a parent's attention while they talk, wait for a pause or put your hand gently on their arm and wait.

Who acts: you, email, parent · What happens: get, talk, wait, put, attend · To what, where: attention, hand, arm

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, email, parent), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wait	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 parent	det
4	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attention	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 parent	case
6	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 talk	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talk	nsubj
9	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 get	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
11	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 pause	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pause	det
14	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wait	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 wait	conj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
19	gently	gently	ADV	_	16 put	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 arm	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arm	nmod:poss
22	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wait	cc
24	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 wait	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wait	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	a parent's attention			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus
2	talk	present	email				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	imperative	you not said here			for a pause	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	put	infinitive	you not said here	your hand	email's arm	gently property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on arm=Destination
5	wait	infinitive	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	attend		a parent				nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:17.

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. 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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