--- title: You say "Excuse me" and wait for people to move when you need to get… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics description: You say "Excuse me" and wait for people to move when you need to get past them. Who acts: You, people. 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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Excuse me, and good manners at the table, sentence 5 You say "Excuse me" and wait for people to move when you need to get past them. **Who acts:** You, people · **What happens:** say, excuse, wait, move, need, get · **To what, where:** me · **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, people), 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:5 # text = You say "Excuse me" and wait for people to move when you need to get past them. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Excuse excuse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 past past ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | You | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **wait** | infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **move** | to-infinitive | people | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **need** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | past people | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past they=Destination | 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:5`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/4/) - next →: [Excuse me, and good manners at the table, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/)