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title: Saying hi, using a friend's name and smiling shows you are glad to s… — Greeting friends and relatives · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying hi, using a friend's name and smiling shows you are glad to see them. Who acts: you, friend. 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 5

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Saying hi, using a friend's name and smiling shows you are glad to see them.

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**Who acts:** you, friend · **What happens:** say, use, smile, show, be, see · **To what, where:** name, Relatives · **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, friend), 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:5
# text = Saying hi, using a friend's name and smiling shows you are 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:csubj
2	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
11	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **use** | gerund |  | a friend's name |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **smile** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Relatives *= relative* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 7 | **name** |  | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | 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:5`.

**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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