Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 28

If a caller asks whether your parents are home, never say you are alone; say they can't come to the phone, hang up and tell them.

Who acts: caller, parents, you, callers · What happens: ask, be, not say, say, not come, hang up · To what, where: phone, callers · 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 (caller, parents, you, 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	_	4 asks	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 caller	det
3	caller	caller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	advcl
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 home	mark
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 home	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 home	cop
9	home	home	ADV	_	4 asks	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 say	advmod
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 say	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 alone	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 alone	cop
15	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 say	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
19	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 phone	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 phone	det
24	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hang	punct
26	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 say	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 hang	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tell	cc
29	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 hang	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	a caller				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	your parents			home property	tree rules
3	not say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	you			alone property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not come	can	callers = caller		the phone		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to phone=Initial_Location
7	hang up	infinitive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	tell speech: assert	infinitive		callers = caller			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:28.

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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