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title: You ask for things to be passed instead of reaching across the table. — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics
description: You ask for things to be passed instead of reaching across the table. Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 11

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You ask for things to be passed instead of reaching across the table.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** ask, pass, reach · **To what, where:** table

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» of the everyday 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 (You), 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:11
# text = You ask for things to be passed instead of reaching across 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): no change
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | You |  |  |  |  | for things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive · passive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **reach** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  | the table |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent across table=Path |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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