Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 9
If it really cannot wait, he says "Excuse me" first.
Who acts: hand, boy · What happens: not wait, say, excuse · To what, where: boy · 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 (hand, boy), 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 | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 wait | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wait | advmod |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Excuse | punct |
| 11 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Excuse | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Excuse | punct |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 Excuse | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait a condition, not said to happen | can | hand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | boy | first property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:9.
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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