Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates, sentence 3

Respect means being curious and kind: asking polite questions, saying «Happy Diwali» or «Eid Mubarak», and never laughing at someone's food, clothes or customs.

Who acts: Respect · What happens: mean, be, ask, say, not laugh · To what, where: polite questions, Happy Diwali, 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 (Respect), 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	Respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger	4 curious	cop
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kind	cc
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 curious	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 asking	punct
8	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	conj
9	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 questions	amod
10	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asking	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 asking	conj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 Diwali	punct
14	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Diwali	amod
15	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saying	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 Diwali	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 Diwali	cc
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 Eid	punct
19	Eid	Eid	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Diwali	conj
20	Mubarak	Mubarak	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Eid	flat
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 Mubarak	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 laughing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 laughing	cc
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 laughing	advmod
25	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 asking	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 food	case
27	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 food	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 someone	case
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 laughing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 clothes	punct
31	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	29 food	conj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 customs	cc
33	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 food	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Respect				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is not said to happen	gerund	Respect not said here			curious property	tree rules
3	be		Respect not said here				tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	Respect not said here	polite questions			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Respect not said here	Happy Diwali and Eid			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent diwali=Topic
6	not laugh	gerund	Respect not said here		someone's food and clothes or customs		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.lesson:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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