--- title: An indirect request is a polite way of asking someone to do somethin… — Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, comma… · tree and pragmatics description: An indirect request is a polite way of asking someone to do something, like "Would you mind closing the window?" Who acts: indirect request, polite way, someone, you. A sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/) / 12 # Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 12 An indirect request is a polite way of asking someone to do something, like "Would you mind closing the window?" **Who acts:** indirect request, polite way, someone, you · **What happens:** be, ask, do, mind, close · **To what, where:** polite way, someone, something, window · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language 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 (indirect request, polite way, someone, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:007-kinds-of-sentences.lesson:12 # text = An indirect request is a polite way of asking someone to do something, like "Would you mind closing the window?" # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 007-kinds-of-sentences.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 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 indirect indirect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 like like SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 Would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 20 closing close VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a indirect request | a polite way | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a polite way *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 4 | **mind** *in a quote* | would | you | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **close** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | the window | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | 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:007-kinds-of-sentences.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. **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: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/11/) - next →: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/)