--- title: At Ming's house good manners are a little different from yours: ther… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: At Ming's house good manners are a little different from yours: there is a thank-you, a sorry for when you did wrong, a softer sorry for small slips, and the answers that go with them. Who acts: good manners, thank, you, answers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good manners, thank, you, answers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.lesson:0 # text = At Ming's house good manners are a little different from yours: there is a thank-you, a sorry for when you did wrong, a softer sorry for small slips, and the answers that go with them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 10 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 10 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 15 expl _ _ 15 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 thank thank NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 flat _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 27 wrong wrong ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 conj _ _ 31 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 appos _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 slips slip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | good manners | | | Ming's house | | from yours; a little *obl*; different *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | present | a thank | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **be** | | good manners *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | past | you | | | | | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **be** | | good manners *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | present | the answers | | | | | with manners | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chinese-street:003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.lesson:0`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The four tones: same sound, different…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/2-the-four-tones/17/) - next →: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/)