--- title: At the table, wait until everyone is seated and served before eating… — Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How… · tree and pragmatics description: At the table, wait until everyone is seated and served before eating, unless the host says «Start», and wait until food is offered or ask politely. Who acts: you, host. 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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 (you, host), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:4 # text = At the table, wait until everyone is seated and served before eating, unless the host says «Start», and wait until food is offered or ask politely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 until until SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 12 before before SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 31 politely politely ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | the table | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location | | 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** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the host | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **start** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **offer** | present · passive | | food | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | | 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | politely *property* | 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:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:4`. **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): 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. 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