Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 10

Formal writing means clear and polite, not complicated; full words, a greeting and "thank you" are usually enough.

Who acts: Formal writing, full words · What happens: mean, thank, be · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of the lesson «Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher» of the language 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 (Formal writing, full words), 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	Formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 writing	amod
2	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 polite	cc
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clear	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 complicated	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 complicated	advmod
9	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 words	punct
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 enough	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 greeting	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 greeting	det
15	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 words	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thank	cc
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 thank	punct
18	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 greeting	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 thank	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 thank	punct
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 enough	cop
22	usually	usually	ADV	_	23 enough	advmod
23	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Formal writing		clear property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	full words and a greeting not said here	you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	is	present	full words and a greeting		enough, usually 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:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:10.

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): R6-punct-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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