Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds, sentence 21
To «pop the question» means to ask someone to marry you.
Who acts: someone · What happens: pop, mean, ask, marry · To what, where: question, someone, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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 (someone), 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 | _ | 3 pop | mark |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 pop | punct |
| 3 | pop | pop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | csubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 question | det |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pop | obj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 pop | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ask | mark |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | xcomp |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 ask | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 marry | mark |
| 12 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ask | xcomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 marry | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop in a quote | to-infinitive | the question | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | someone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | someone not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:21.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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