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title: Thanking bus drivers, shop staff and dinner staff makes their day be… — Gratitude, helping at home and privacy · tree and pragmatics
description: Thanking bus drivers, shop staff and dinner staff makes their day better. Who acts: bus drivers. 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.
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# Gratitude, helping at home and privacy, sentence 6

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Thanking bus drivers, shop staff and dinner staff makes their day better.

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**Who acts:** bus drivers · **What happens:** thank, make

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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 (bus drivers), 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:6
# text = Thanking bus drivers, shop staff and dinner staff makes their day better.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
2	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
10	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | bus drivers and shop staff and dinner staff *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | bus drivers and shop staff and dinner staff |  |  |  | day | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.lesson:6`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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