Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates, sentence 15

Showing respect means asking polite questions, using kind greetings and never mocking someone's food, clothes or customs.

Who acts: Showing · What happens: show, mean, ask, use, not mock · To what, where: respect, polite questions, kind greetings, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» 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 (Showing), 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	Showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	csubj
2	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	xcomp
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 questions	amod
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 using	punct
8	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 asking	conj
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 greetings	amod
10	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 using	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 using	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 mocking	advmod
13	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 asking	conj
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 food	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 someone	case
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mocking	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 clothes	punct
18	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 food	conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 customs	cc
20	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 food	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	gerund		respect	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient
2	mean	present	Showing		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask not said to happen	gerund	Showing not said here	polite questions	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
4	use	gerund	Showing not said here	kind greetings	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Patient
5	not mock	gerund	Showing not said here	someone's food and clothes or customs	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.lesson:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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