Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 13
"Residence" is a formal word for home; answering the phone with a polite greeting is safer when the caller might be a stranger.
Who acts: Residence, phone, answering, caller · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: formal word, stranger
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 (Residence, phone, answering, caller), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Residence | punct |
| 2 | Residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Residence | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 word | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 6 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 safer | punct |
| 11 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 safer | csubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 phone | det |
| 13 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answering | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 greeting | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 greeting | det |
| 16 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 greeting | amod |
| 17 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answering | obl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 safer | cop |
| 19 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 word | parataxis |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 stranger | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 caller | det |
| 22 | caller | caller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stranger | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 stranger | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 stranger | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 stranger | det |
| 26 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 safer | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 word | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Residence | a formal word | for home | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | gerund | the phone | with a polite greeting | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | answering | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | might | the caller | a stranger | 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:13.
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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