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title: A girl in Sydney sees her cousin for the first time in two years and… — Greeting friends and relatives · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Sydney sees her cousin for the first time in two years and feels shy; she says hello and asks "What have you been doing?", and soon they are chatting as if they had never been apart. Who acts: girl, you, Relatives. A sentence of the lesson «Greeting friends and relatives» of the everyday c
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# Greeting friends and relatives, sentence 4

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A girl in Sydney sees her cousin for the first time in two years and feels shy; she says hello and asks "What have you been doing?", and soon they are chatting as if they had never been apart.

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**Who acts:** girl, you, Relatives · **What happens:** see, feel, say, ask, do, chat · **To what, where:** cousin · **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 (girl, you, Relatives), 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:4
# text = A girl in Sydney sees her cousin for the first time in two years and feels shy; she says hello and asks "What have you been doing?", and soon they are chatting as if they had never been apart.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
16	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	20	ccomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
23	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
25	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux	_	_
29	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
34	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	cop	_	_
44	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	37	advcl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | a girl in Sydney | girl's cousin |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cousin=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feel** | present | a girl in Sydney *not said here* |  |  |  |  | shy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 6 | **chat** *speech: other* | present · progressive | Relatives *= relative* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | Relatives *= relative* |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | 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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**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): R1-cc-next ×3, 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.

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