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title: "G'day" is a friendly Australian greeting, fine in a relaxed class t… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics
description: "G'day" is a friendly Australian greeting, fine in a relaxed class talk; dialect greetings are not wrong, they just suit some audiences better than others. Who acts: G'day, dialect greetings, speakers. A sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the english course of 
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# Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 17

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"G'day" is a friendly Australian greeting, fine in a relaxed class talk; dialect greetings are not wrong, they just suit some audiences better than others.

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**Who acts:** G'day, dialect greetings, speakers · **What happens:** be, not be, suit · **To what, where:** friendly Australian greeting, audiences

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the english 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 (G'day, dialect greetings, speakers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:17
# text = "G'day" is a friendly Australian greeting, fine in a relaxed class talk; dialect greetings are not wrong, they just suit some audiences better than others.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	G'day	G'day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	greetings	greeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	appos	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	suit	suit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	audiences	audience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj
28	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	ccomp	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | G'day | a friendly Australian greeting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | dialect greetings |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **suit** | present | speakers *= speaker* | some audiences |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:17`.

**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, 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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