Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 8

A command tells someone to do something; its verb form is called the imperative, and the "you" is understood, not said.

Who acts: command, someone, mark · What happens: tell, do, call, understand, not say, form · To what, where: someone, something, verb form, you · 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 (command, someone, mark), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 command	det
2	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 tells	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tells	xcomp
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 do	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 form	nmod:poss
10	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 form	compound
11	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 called	aux:pass
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tells	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 imperative	det
15	imperative	imperative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 called	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 understood	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 understood	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 understood	det
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 you	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 understood	nsubj:pass
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 you	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 understood	aux:pass
23	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 called	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 said	advmod
26	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 understood	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a command	someone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	someone not said here	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
3	call	present · passive		mark's verb form	imperative property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	understand	present · passive		you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
5	not say speech: assert	participle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	form		mark			nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:8.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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