--- title: From a shared dish you use the serving spoon and take a fair share,… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics description: From a shared dish you use the serving spoon and take a fair share, and you offer the last piece before taking it. 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 c --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 17 From a shared dish you use the serving spoon and take a fair share, and you offer the last piece before taking it. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** share, use, take, offer · **To what, where:** serving spoon, shared dish, fair share, last piece, spoon 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:17 # text = From a shared dish you use the serving spoon and take a fair share, and you offer the last piece before taking it. # 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 From from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 serving serving NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 offer offer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | you | the serving spoon | | a shared dish | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Patient | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a fair share | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | | 4 | **offer** | present | you | the last piece | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | | 5 | **take** | gerund | you *not said here* | spoon | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [Excuse me, and good manners at the table, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/16/) - next →: [Excuse me, and good manners at the table, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/)