Manners and kindness, sentence 4
In a school lunch line in Texas, Maya holds the door for the boy behind her; he says thank you and smiles, and two tiny acts of kindness leave both of them a little happier.
Who acts: Maya, listening, two tiny acts, kindness · What happens: hold, say, thank, smile, leave, act · To what, where: door, school lunch line, you, both · 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 (Maya, listening, two tiny acts, kindness), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 line | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 line | det |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 line | compound |
| 4 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 line | compound |
| 5 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Texas | case |
| 7 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 line | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 line | punct |
| 9 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | nsubj |
| 10 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 boy | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | obl |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 boy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 says | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 says | nsubj |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 holds | parataxis |
| 21 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 says | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 thank | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 smiles | cc |
| 24 | smiles | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thank | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 leave | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 leave | cc |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 acts | nummod |
| 28 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 acts | amod |
| 29 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 leave | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 kindness | case |
| 31 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 acts | nmod |
| 32 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 holds | conj |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 leave | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 both | nmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 little | det |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 happier | obl |
| 38 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 leave | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Maya | the door | a school lunch line in Texas | for Maya's boy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent door=Theme in line=Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | listening | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 4 | smile | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | leave | present | two tiny acts of kindness | both | happy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme | |||
| 6 | act | kindness | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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:4.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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