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title: After a burp or passing wind by accident, you say "Excuse me" quietly. — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics
description: After a burp or passing wind by accident, you say "Excuse me" quietly. Who acts: you, accident. 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 7

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After a burp or passing wind by accident, you say "Excuse me" quietly.

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**Who acts:** you, accident · **What happens:** say, excuse, wind · **To what, where:** burp, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, accident), 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:7
# text = After a burp or passing wind by accident, you say "Excuse me" quietly.
# 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 ×2
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	burp	burp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Excuse	excuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | burp or passing and a wind by accident |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **wind** |  | accident |  |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: by=agent |

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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:7`.

**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 ×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/).

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