--- title: Chopsticks are never stuck upright in rice, and it is fine to ask fo… — A guest at the table, and manners on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: Chopsticks are never stuck upright in rice, and it is fine to ask for a fork. A sentence of the lesson «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/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/) / [A guest at the table, and manners on t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/) / 12 # A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 12 Chopsticks are never stuck upright in rice, and it is fine to ask for a fork. **What happens:** not stick, be, ask · **To what, where:** Chopsticks, rice This is a sentence of the lesson «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:12 # text = Chopsticks are never stuck upright in rice, and it is fine to ask for a fork. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Chopsticks chopstick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 upright upright ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fork fork NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stick** | present · passive | | Chopsticks | | rice | | upright *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in rice=Destination | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | | for a fork | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [A guest at the table, and manners on t…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/11/) - next →: [A guest at the table, and manners on t…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/)