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title: When a grown-up says hello to you, you look at them, smile and say h… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics
description: When a grown-up says hello to you, you look at them, smile and say hello back, using their name if you know it; ignoring a greeting feels rude to the other person. Who acts: a, you, ignoring, their. A sentence of the lesson «Greeting adults and teachers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary scho
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# Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 0

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When a grown-up says hello to you, you look at them, smile and say hello back, using their name if you know it; ignoring a greeting feels rude to the other person.

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**Who acts:** a, you, ignoring, their · **What happens:** grow up, say, look, smile, say back, use · **To what, where:** hello, you, name, greeting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting adults and teachers» 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 (a, you, ignoring, their), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.lesson:0
# text = When a grown-up says hello to you, you look at them, smile and say hello back, using their name if you know it; ignoring a greeting feels rude to the other person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	nsubj	_	_
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	hello	hello	NOUN	NN	_	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	smile	smile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	hello	hello	NOUN	NN	_	18	obj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	ignoring	ignore	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	csubj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
34	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a | hello | you |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hello=Topic to you=Recipient |
| 3 | **look** | present | you |  |  |  |  | at them *= they* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 4 | **smile** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say back** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | hello |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |
| 6 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | their name |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 7 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | name |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 8 | **ignore** | gerund |  | a greeting |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme |
| 9 | **feel** | present | ignoring |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 10 | **name** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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