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title: Newcomers are busy and tired; the friendly thing is to say hello fir… — Our street: who parked where and who won what · tree and pragmatics
description: Newcomers are busy and tired; the friendly thing is to say hello first instead of deciding they are «stuck up». Who acts: Newcomers, friendly thing. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 25

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Newcomers are busy and tired; the friendly thing is to say hello first instead of deciding they are «stuck up».

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**Who acts:** Newcomers, friendly thing · **What happens:** be, decide, stick up · **To what, where:** things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life 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 (Newcomers, friendly thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:25
# text = Newcomers are busy and tired; the friendly thing is to say hello first instead of deciding they are «stuck up».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Newcomers	newcomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
13	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	12	obj	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	deciding	decide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Newcomers |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Newcomers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the friendly thing |  |  |  |  | first, say *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **decide** | gerund | the friendly thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **stick up** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**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:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:25`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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