Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 12

An indirect request is a polite way of asking someone to do something, like "Would you mind closing the window?"

Who acts: indirect request, polite way, someone, you · What happens: be, ask, do, mind, close · To what, where: polite way, someone, something, window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» 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 (indirect request, polite way, someone, you), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 request	det
2	indirect	indirect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 request	amod
3	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 asking	mark
9	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 way	acl
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 asking	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asking	xcomp
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 do	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mind	punct
15	like	like	SCONJ	_	19 mind	mark
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 mind	punct
17	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 mind	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 mind	nsubj
19	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	parataxis
20	closing	close	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 mind	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 closing	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 mind	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 mind	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a indirect request	a polite way	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	a polite way not said here	someone	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	someone not said here	something	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	mind in a quote	would	you		vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	close in a quote	gerund	you not said here	the window	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient

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:007-kinds-of-sentences.lesson:12.

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): R5-strong ×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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