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title: "Good morning" is said before midday, "good afternoon" until about s… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics
description: "Good morning" is said before midday, "good afternoon" until about six, and "good evening" after that. 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 7

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"Good morning" is said before midday, "good afternoon" until about six, and "good evening" after that.

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**What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Good morning · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:7
# text = "Good morning" is said before midday, "good afternoon" until about six, and "good evening" after that.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	until	until	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Good morning and good afternoon |  |  | before midday; until six; evening |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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:7`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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