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title: Use "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms" or "Dr" with the surname until an adult asks y… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics
description: Use "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms" or "Dr" with the surname until an adult asks you to use their first name. Who acts: you, adult, adults. 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 6

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Use "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms" or "Dr" with the surname until an adult asks you to use their first name.

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**Who acts:** you, adult, adults · **What happens:** use, ask, name · **To what, where:** Mr, you, first name

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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 (you, adult, adults), 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:6
# text = Use "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms" or "Dr" with the surname until an adult asks 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Ms	Ms	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Dr	Dr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	surname	surname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | Mr and Ms or Dr |  |  |  | with the surname | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mr=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a adult |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **use** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a adult *not said here* | adults's first name |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 4 | **name** |  | adults *= adult* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:6`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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