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title: Children who never greet or answer adults are often misunderstood as… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics
description: Children who never greet or answer adults are often misunderstood as rude or upset, even when they are only shy. 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 20

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Children who never greet or answer adults are often misunderstood as rude or upset, even when they are only shy.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** not greet, answer, misunderstand, be · **To what, where:** adults, Children

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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:20
# text = Children who never greet or answer adults are often misunderstood as rude or upset, even when they are only shy.
# 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	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	misunderstood	misunderstand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Children |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Children *not said here* |  | adults |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent adult=Eventuality |
| 3 | **misunderstand** | present · passive |  | Children |  |  |  | as rude; often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as rude=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | present | Children *= child* |  |  |  |  | shy *property* | tree rules |

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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:20`.

**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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