--- title: Some sentences wear a disguise: "Would you mind closing the window?"… — Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, comma… · tree and pragmatics description: Some sentences wear a disguise: "Would you mind closing the window?" looks like a question but is a polite request, so answering "No" and not moving makes the class laugh. Who acts: sentences, you, answering. A sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 4 Some sentences wear a disguise: "Would you mind closing the window?" looks like a question but is a polite request, so answering "No" and not moving makes the class laugh. **Who acts:** sentences, you, answering · **What happens:** wear, mind, close, look, be, answer · **To what, where:** disguise, window, polite request · **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 (sentences, you, answering), 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:4 # text = Some sentences wear a disguise: "Would you mind closing the window?" looks like a question but is a polite request, so answering "No" and not moving makes the class laugh. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 Would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 closing close VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 16 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 answering answer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 csubj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 29 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 33 discourse _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 conj _ _ 34 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det 36 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | present | some sentences | a disguise | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme | | 2 | **mind** *in a quote* | would | you | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **close** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | the window | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | | 4 | **look** | present | | | | | | like a question | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | | a polite request | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **answer** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **make** | present | answering | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **laugh** | infinitive | answering *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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:language:007-kinds-of-sentences.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/3/) - next →: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/)