--- title: To ask a stranger something, you start with "Excuse me". — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and th… · tree and pragmatics description: To ask a stranger something, you start with "Excuse me". Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and 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/221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table/13/) [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/) / [Respect for everyone, greetings, goodb…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table/) / 13 # Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 13 To ask a stranger something, you start with "Excuse me". **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ask, start, excuse · **To what, where:** something, stranger, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and 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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:13 # text = To ask a stranger something, you start with "Excuse me". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 4 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 obl _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | something | a stranger | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **start** | present | you | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:13`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-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: [Respect for everyone, greetings, goodb…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table/12/) - next →: [Respect for everyone, greetings, goodb…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table/)