Home alone, the door and the phone, sentence 14
You should not open the door to anyone you were not told to expect.
Who acts: You · What happens: not open, not tell, expect · To what, where: door, anyone, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 open | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 open | advmod |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 anyone | case |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 open | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 told | advmod |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 expect | mark |
| 14 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not open | should | You | the door | anyone | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | past · passive | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | expect not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:035-home-alone.lesson:14.
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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