--- title: A boy in Manchester meets his teacher in the supermarket on Saturday… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Manchester meets his teacher in the supermarket on Saturday; he smiles and says "Hello, Mrs Patel", then lets her get on with her shopping. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Mrs), 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:4 # text = A boy in Manchester meets his teacher in the supermarket on Saturday; he smiles and says "Hello, Mrs Patel", then lets her get on with her shopping. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 supermarket supermarket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 smiles smile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Hello hello INTJ UH _ 17 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 vocative _ _ 22 Patel Patel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 26 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 on on ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 shopping shopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | present | a boy in Manchester | boy's teacher | | the supermarket | saturday | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Co-Agent | | 2 | **smile** | present | boy | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **let** | present | a boy in Manchester *not said here* | | | | then | | tree rules | | 5 | **get on** | infinitive | Mrs | | | | | with Mrs's shopping | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **shop** | | Mrs | | | | | | nom shopping «act intransitive»: 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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Greeting adults and teachers, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/2/) - next →: [Greeting adults and teachers, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/)