--- title: A boy in Dublin at his friend's house waits until everyone is seated… — Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and t… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Dublin at his friend's house waits until everyone is seated and served, eats quietly, and asks if anyone would like the last potato before taking it. Who acts: boy, anyone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.lesson:7 # text = A boy in Dublin at his friend's house waits until everyone is seated and served, eats quietly, and asks if anyone would like the last potato before taking it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 296-greetings-goodbyes-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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 10 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 until until SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 18 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 potato potato NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 before before SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | present | a boy in Dublin at boy's friend's house | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **seat** | present · passive | | everyone | | | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | | 3 | **serve** | participle | | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | present | a boy in Dublin at boy's friend's house *not said here* | | | | | quietly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a boy in Dublin at boy's friend's house *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | anyone | the last potato | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot potato=Theme | | 7 | **take** | gerund | anyone *not said here* | potato | | | | | 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:296-greetings-goodbyes-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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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