--- title: Knife and fork placed together on the plate show you have finished. — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics description: Knife and fork placed together on the plate show you have finished. Who acts: Knife, 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Excuse me, and good manners at the table](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/) / 12 # Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 12 Knife and fork placed together on the plate show you have finished. **Who acts:** Knife, you · **What happens:** place, show, finish · **To what, where:** Knife, plate · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Knife, 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:12 # text = Knife and fork placed together on the plate show you have finished. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 fork fork NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 5 together together ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **place** | participle | | Knife and fork *not said here* | | the plate | | together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on plate=Destination | | 2 | **show** | present | Knife and fork | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **finish** | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «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:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/11/) - next →: [Excuse me, and good manners at the table, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/)