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title: Children who greet adults themselves, instead of hiding behind a par… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics
description: Children who greet adults themselves, instead of hiding behind a parent, seem confident and polite. Who acts: Children. 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 every clause.
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# Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 10

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Children who greet adults themselves, instead of hiding behind a parent, seem confident and polite.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** greet, hide, seem · **To what, where:** adults

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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 (Children), 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:10
# text = Children who greet adults themselves, instead of hiding behind a parent, seem confident and polite.
# 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): no change
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	9	mark	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	confident	confident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Children |  | adults  Children |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | Children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind a parent | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind parent=Location |
| 3 | **seem** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | confident *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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