--- title: "Excuse me" is a small key that opens many doors: you say it to get… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics description: "Excuse me" is a small key that opens many doors: you say it to get past people, to get a shop assistant's attention, after a burp by accident, and "May I please be excused?" before you leave the table. Who acts: small key, you, shop assistant, accident. 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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 (small key, you, shop assistant, accident), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:0 # text = "Excuse me" is a small key that opens many doors: you say it to get past people, to get a shop assistant's attention, after a burp by accident, and "May I please be excused?" before you leave the table. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.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 ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Excuse excuse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 nsubj _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:ccomp 19 past past ADP IN _ 20 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 assistant assistant NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 after after ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 burp burp NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 38 May may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 please please INTJ UH _ 42 discourse _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 excused excuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 advcl _ _ 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 45 before before SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a small key | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **open** | present | a small key | many doors | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | you | key | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | past people | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past people=Destination | | 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a shop assistant's attention | | | after a burp by accident | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus | | 7 | **excuse** *in a quote* | may · passive | | I | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **leave** | present | you | the table | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme | | 9 | **attend** | | a shop assistant | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **burp** | | accident | | | | | | nom burp «act intransitive»: by=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](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:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.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 ×3. **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: [Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry/19/) - next →: [Excuse me, and good manners at the table, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/)