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title: When you see a friend, you say hi, use their name and smile; people… — Greeting friends and relatives · tree and pragmatics
description: When you see a friend, you say hi, use their name and smile; people feel happy when they are noticed and someone is glad to see them. Who acts: you, people, someone, their. A sentence of the lesson «Greeting friends and relatives» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Greeting friends and relatives, sentence 0

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When you see a friend, you say hi, use their name and smile; people feel happy when they are noticed and someone is glad to see them.

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**Who acts:** you, people, someone, their · **What happens:** see, say, use, smile, feel, notice · **To what, where:** friend, hi, name, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting friends and relatives» 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, people, someone, their), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.lesson:0
# text = When you see a friend, you say hi, use their name and smile; people feel happy when they are noticed and someone is glad to see them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.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
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	hi	hi	NOUN	NN	_	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
11	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	smile	smile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | a friend |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | hi |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hi=Topic |
| 3 | **use** | infinitive | you *not said here* | their name |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 4 | **smile** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feel** | present | people |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **notice** | present · passive |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | present | someone |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **see** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 9 | **name** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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