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title: Facing a person helps them read your lips. — Greeting friends and relatives · tree and pragmatics
description: Facing a person helps them read your lips. Who acts: Facing, grandparents. 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 14

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Facing a person helps them read your lips.

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**Who acts:** Facing, grandparents · **What happens:** face, help, read · **To what, where:** person, grandparents, lips

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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 (Facing, grandparents), 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:14
# text = Facing a person helps them read your lips.
# 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	Facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **face** | gerund |  |  | a person |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme person=Destination |
| 2 | **help** | present | Facing | grandparents *= grandparent* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive | grandparents *= grandparent* *not said here* | your lips |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=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:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.lesson:14`.

**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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