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title: Friendly neighbours look out for each other, so you say hello or wav… — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics
description: Friendly neighbours look out for each other, so you say hello or wave when you pass them, and a kind word about their garden builds good feeling on the street. Who acts: Friendly neighbours, you, kind word. A sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» of the everyday course of Mova'
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# Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 0

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Friendly neighbours look out for each other, so you say hello or wave when you pass them, and a kind word about their garden builds good feeling on the street.

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**Who acts:** Friendly neighbours, you, kind word · **What happens:** look out, say, wave, pass, build · **To what, where:** neighbours, good feeling, street · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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 (Friendly neighbours, you, kind word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people.lesson:0
# text = Friendly neighbours look out for each other, so you say hello or wave when you pass them, and a kind word about their garden builds good feeling on the street.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 123-neighbours-and-new-people.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): no change
1	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obl	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	11	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wave	wave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **look out** | present | Friendly neighbours |  |  |  |  | for each | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for each=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |
| 3 | **wave** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass** | present | you | neighbours *= neighbour* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
| 5 | **build** | present | a kind word about neighbours's garden | good feeling |  | the street |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme on street=Source |

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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:123-neighbours-and-new-people.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): no change. **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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