Home alone, the door and the phone, sentence 2
You do not open it to anyone you were not told to expect, even if they seem friendly, say they are delivering something or say they know your parents.
Who acts: You, rules · What happens: not open, not tell, expect, seem, say, deliver · To what, where: door, anyone, you, something, parents · 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, rules), 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 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 open | advmod |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 open | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 open | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 told | advmod |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 expect | mark |
| 13 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seem | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 seem | advmod |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 seem | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seem | nsubj |
| 18 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 say | advcl |
| 19 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seem | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | parataxis |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 delivering | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 delivering | aux |
| 24 | delivering | deliver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 say | ccomp |
| 25 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 delivering | obj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 say | cc |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 say | conj |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 know | nsubj |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | ccomp |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 parents | nmod:poss |
| 31 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 know | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn, hedge=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not open | present · do-support | You | door | anyone | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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 | |||||
| 4 | seem a condition, not said to happen | present | rules = rule | friendly property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | deliver | present · progressive | rules = rule | something | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | know | present | rules = rule | your parents | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus |
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:2.
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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