--- title: You ask "Could you please pass the salt?" instead of reaching across… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics description: You ask "Could you please pass the salt?" instead of reaching across, you take a fair share from a shared dish with the serving spoon, and you offer the last piece to others 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](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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 2 You ask "Could you please pass the salt?" instead of reaching across, you take a fair share from a shared dish with the serving spoon, and you offer the last piece to others before taking it. **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** ask, pass, reach, take, share, offer · **To what, where:** salt, fair share, shared dish, last piece, others, piece · **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 (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:2 # text = You ask "Could you please pass the salt?" instead of reaching across, you take a fair share from a shared dish with the serving spoon, and you offer the last piece to others 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 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 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 Could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 please please INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 7 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 12 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 14 mark _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 15 across across ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 serving serving NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 offer offer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 39 before before SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | You | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pass** *in a quote* | could | you | the salt | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme salt=Trajectory | | 3 | **reach** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | across *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | present | you | a fair share | | a shared dish with the serving spoon | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent share=Theme from dish=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **offer** | present | you | the last piece | | | | to others *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to other=Goal | | 7 | **take** | gerund | you *not said here* | piece | | | | | 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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/1/) - next →: [Excuse me, and good manners at the table, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/)