Manners and kindness, sentence 7
Saying please turns an order into a polite request.
Who acts: Saying · What happens: say, turn · To what, where: order, polite request · 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 (Saying), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turns | csubj |
| 2 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 1 Saying | discourse |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 order | det |
| 5 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 request | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 request | det |
| 8 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 request | amod |
| 9 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | turn | present | Saying | a order | a polite request | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent order=Theme into request=Trajectory |
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:7.
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.
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