Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 24
Being polite costs nothing, and rudeness makes people less willing to help you.
Who acts: rudeness, people · What happens: be, cost, make, help · To what, where: nothing, people, you
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 (rudeness, people), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 polite | cop |
| 2 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 costs | csubj |
| 3 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 costs | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 makes | cc |
| 7 | rudeness | rudeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 costs | conj |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 willing | advmod |
| 11 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 willing | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 costs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | polite property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cost | present | nothing | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value | |||||
| 3 | make | present | rudeness | people | willing property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | |||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | people not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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:24.
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. 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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