--- title: Whether children should say please to voice assistants like Alexa is… — Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teac… · tree and pragmatics description: Whether children should say please to voice assistants like Alexa is argued about; some parents want it for good habits, others say it doesn't matter. Who acts: children, parents, others, it. 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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 (children, parents, others, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:16 # text = Whether children should say please to voice assistants like Alexa is argued about; some parents want it for good habits, others say it doesn't matter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 csubj:pass _ _ 5 please please INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 assistants assistant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Alexa Alexa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 12 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | children | | voice assistants like Alexa | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to assistant=Recipient | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **want** | present | some parents | conscientious | | | | for good habits | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | it | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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