Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 16

Whether children should say please to voice assistants like Alexa is argued about; some parents want it for good habits, others say it doesn't matter.

Who acts: children, parents, others, it · What happens: say, argue, want, not matter · To what, where: voice assistants, conscientious · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children, parents, others, it), 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 say	mark
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 argued	csubj:pass
5	please	please	INTJ	_	4 say	discourse
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 assistants	case
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assistants	compound
8	assistants	assistant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 Alexa	case
10	Alexa	Alexa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 assistants	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 argued	aux:pass
12	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	about	about	ADP	_	12 argued	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 parents	det
16	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 argued	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 want	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 habits	case
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 habits	amod
21	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 want	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 want	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 matter	nsubj
26	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 matter	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 matter	advmod
28	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 say	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 argued	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	children		voice assistants like Alexa		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to assistant=Recipient
2	argue speech: disagree	present · passive					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»
3	want	present	some parents	conscientious		for good habits	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	others				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not matter	present · do-support	it				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:16.

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, 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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