Home alone, the door and the phone, sentence 3
You never tell a caller or a stranger at the door that you are alone.
Who acts: You · What happens: not tell, be · To what, where: caller, door · 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 | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 caller | det |
| 5 | caller | caller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 stranger | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stranger | det |
| 8 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caller | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 alone | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 alone | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 alone | cop |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 door | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- 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 tell speech: assert | infinitive | You | a caller or a stranger | the door | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caller=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | the door not said here | alone property | tree rules |
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:3.
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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