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title: When grandparents arrive, you stop what you are doing and go to gree… — Greeting friends and relatives · tree and pragmatics
description: When grandparents arrive, you stop what you are doing and go to greet them. Who acts: grandparents, you. A sentence of the lesson «Greeting friends and relatives» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Greeting friends and relatives, sentence 10

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When grandparents arrive, you stop what you are doing and go to greet them.

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**Who acts:** grandparents, you · **What happens:** arrive, stop, do, go, greet · **To what, where:** grandparents

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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 (grandparents, you), 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:10
# text = When grandparents arrive, you stop what you are doing and go to greet 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | grandparents |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | grandparents *= grandparent* |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:10`.

**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): 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/).

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