Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 18
At someone else's table, wait until food is offered, or ask politely, instead of grabbing it.
Who acts: you · What happens: wait, offer, ask, grab · To what, where: table, food
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 table | case |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 table | nmod:poss |
| 3 | else | else | ADV | _ | 2 someone | advmod |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 someone | case |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 table | punct |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 offered | mark |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 offered | aux:pass |
| 11 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wait | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wait | conj |
| 15 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 14 ask | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grabbing | punct |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 grabbing | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | grabbing | grab | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ask | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grabbing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | someone's table | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location | ||||
| 2 | offer | present · passive | food | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | politely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | grab | gerund | you not said here | food | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:18.
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): no change. 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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