--- title: An elderly neighbour who lives alone is cheered by being noticed, an… — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics description: An elderly neighbour who lives alone is cheered by being noticed, and with your parents you can check that they are all right in very hot, cold or stormy weather. Who acts: elderly neighbour, you, neighbours. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elderly neighbour, you, neighbours), 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:1 # text = An elderly neighbour who lives alone is cheered by being noticed, and with your parents you can check that they are all right in very hot, cold or stormy weather. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 elderly elderly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 alone alone ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 cheered cheer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 by by SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 noticed notice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 all all ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 stormy stormy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 32 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | a elderly neighbour | | | | | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cheer** | present · passive | | a elderly neighbour | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **notice** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» | | 4 | **check** | can | you | hot weather | | | | with your parents | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | neighbours *= neighbour* | | | | | all, right *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | neighbours *= neighbour* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:1`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Greeting neighbours and new people, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/0/) - next →: [Greeting neighbours and new people, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/)