--- title: A command tells someone to do something; its verb form is called the… — Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, comma… · tree and pragmatics description: A command tells someone to do something; its verb form is called the imperative, and the "you" is understood, not said. Who acts: command, someone, mark. 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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 (command, someone, mark), 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:8 # text = A command tells someone to do something; its verb form is called the imperative, and the "you" is understood, not said. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 command command NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 7 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 imperative imperative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 understood understand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a command | someone | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | mark's verb form | | | | imperative *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **understand** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **form** | | mark | | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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:8`. **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 ×1, 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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/7/) - next →: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/)