Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 19

Never stand chopsticks upright in rice; in some Asian cultures it looks like a funeral custom.

Who acts: you, rice · What happens: not stand, look · To what, where: chopsticks, rice

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, rice), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 stand	advmod
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stand	obj
4	upright	upright	ADV	_	2 stand	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 rice	case
6	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stand	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 cultures	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 cultures	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 cultures	det
10	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cultures	amod
11	cultures	culture	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looks	obl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looks	nsubj
13	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stand	parataxis
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 custom	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 custom	det
16	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 custom	compound
17	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looks	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stand	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	imperative	you not said here	chopsticks		rice		upright property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chopstick=Theme in rice=Destination
2	look	present	rice					like a funeral custom; in some Asian cultures	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in culture=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:19.

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 ×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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