Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 16
To ask a stranger, like a shop assistant, a question, start with «Excuse me».
Who acts: you, stranger · What happens: ask, start, excuse · To what, where: stranger, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners» 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 (you, stranger), 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 | _ | 2 ask | mark |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 start | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stranger | det |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 assistant | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 assistant | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 assistant | det |
| 8 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assistant | compound |
| 9 | assistant | assistant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stranger | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 question | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 question | det |
| 12 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stranger | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 start | punct |
| 14 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 Excuse | mark |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 Excuse | punct |
| 17 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 start | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 Excuse | obj |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 Excuse | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 start | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | you not said here | a stranger | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | start | imperative | you not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | a stranger = stranger not said here | me | 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:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:16.
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, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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