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title: "Good night" is said when parting in the evening or going to bed, an… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics
description: "Good night" is said when parting in the evening or going to bed, and the reply is "Good night" too. Who acts: reply. 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 8

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"Good night" is said when parting in the evening or going to bed, and the reply is "Good night" too.

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**Who acts:** reply · **What happens:** say, part, go, be · **To what, where:** Good night, bed · **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: who acts (reply), 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:8
# text = "Good night" is said when parting in the evening or going to bed, and the reply is "Good night" too.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	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	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	parting	part	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Good night |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **part** | gerund |  |  |  |  | evening |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the reply | Good night |  |  |  |  | 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:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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