Manners and kindness, sentence 3
Good listening means looking at the person, letting them finish, and then answering about what they actually said.
Who acts: Good listening, Manners · What happens: mean, look, let, finish, answer, say · To what, where: Manners · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (Good listening, Manners), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 listening | amod |
| 2 | listening | listening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 letting | punct |
| 9 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 looking | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 letting | obj |
| 11 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 letting | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answering | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 answering | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 answering | advmod |
| 15 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 looking | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 what | case |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 answering | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 19 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 20 said | advmod |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Good listening | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look not said to happen | gerund | Good listening not said here | at the person | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at person=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | gerund | Good listening not said here | Manners | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | finish | infinitive | Manners not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | gerund | Good listening not said here | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Manners | actually property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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:051-manners-and-kindness.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): R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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