--- title: With adults it is safest to start formal: "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms" or "Dr"… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics description: With adults it is safest to start formal: "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms" or "Dr" with their surname, until they tell you to use their first name. Who acts: Mr. A sentence of the lesson «Greeting adults and teachers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/1/) [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/) / [Greeting adults and teachers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/) / 1 # Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 1 With adults it is safest to start formal: "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms" or "Dr" with their surname, until they tell you to use their first name. **Who acts:** Mr · **What happens:** be, start, tell, use, name · **To what, where:** Mr, you, first name · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Mr), 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:1 # text = With adults it is safest to start formal: "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms" or "Dr" with their surname, until they tell you to use their first name. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 expl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 safest safe ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 8 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Ms Ms PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Dr Dr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 surname surname NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:ccomp 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 37 amod _ _ 37 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | with adults and Ms with Ms's surname or Dr; safe *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | | Mr and Mrs | | | | formal *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mr=Eventuality | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Mr | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **use** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mr *not said here* | Mr's first name | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | | 5 | **name** | | Mr | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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