--- title: Eating together is shared, so you wait until everyone is seated and… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics description: Eating together is shared, so you wait until everyone is seated and served before you start, unless the host says "Start". Who acts: Eating, you, host. 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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 (Eating, you, host), 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:1 # text = Eating together is shared, so you wait until everyone is seated and served before you start, unless the host says "Start". # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 together together ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 9 until until SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 15 before before SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:parataxis 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **share** | present · passive | Eating | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wait** | present | you | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **seat** | present · passive | | everyone | | | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | | 5 | **serve** | participle | | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **start** | present | you | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the host | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **start** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [Excuse me, and good manners at the table, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/0/) - next →: [Excuse me, and good manners at the table, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/)