--- title: When you meet someone new, you look at them, smile and say "Nice to… — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics description: When you meet someone new, you look at them, smile and say "Nice to meet you"; if you forget their name, you simply ask again, because it happens to everyone. Who acts: you, it, 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 (you, it, 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:2 # text = When you meet someone new, you look at them, smile and say "Nice to meet you"; if you forget their name, you simply ask again, because it happens to everyone. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 smile smile VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 forget forget VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 simply simply ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed form=decl | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | present | you | someone | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Co-Agent | | 2 | **look** | present | you | | | | | at neighbours *= neighbour* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | | 3 | **smile** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | you | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | | 6 | **forget** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | neighbours's name | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | | | | again | simply *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **happen** | present | it | | | | | to everyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **name** | | neighbours *= neighbour* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/1/) - next →: [Greeting neighbours and new people, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/)