--- title: Saying thank you, and maybe writing a card, shows you value a person… — Gratitude, helping at home and privacy · tree and pragmatics description: Saying thank you, and maybe writing a card, shows you value a person's kindness. Who acts: Saying, you. A sentence of the lesson «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Gratitude, helping at home and privacy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/) / 4 # Gratitude, helping at home and privacy, sentence 4 Saying thank you, and maybe writing a card, shows you value a person's kindness. **Who acts:** Saying, you · **What happens:** say, thank, write, show, value · **To what, where:** you, card, kindness · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» of the everyday 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 (Saying, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.lesson:4 # text = Saying thank you, and maybe writing a card, shows you value a person's kindness. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.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 ×2 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj 2 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 value value VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **write** | gerund | | a card | | | | maybe *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | | 4 | **show** | present | Saying | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **value** | present | you | a person's kindness | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kindness=Stimulus | 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:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Gratitude, helping at home and privacy, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/2/) - next →: [Gratitude, helping at home and privacy, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/)