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title: People like to hear their own name, so it is worth learning your nei… — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics
description: People like to hear their own name, so it is worth learning your neighbours' names. Who acts: People, learning, neighbours. A sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 7

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People like to hear their own name, so it is worth learning your neighbours' names.

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**Who acts:** People, learning, neighbours · **What happens:** like, hear, be, learn, name · **To what, where:** own name, names

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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 (People, learning, 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:7
# text = People like to hear their own name, so it is worth learning your neighbours' names.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **like** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | People's own name |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | learning |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | gerund |  | your neighbours's names |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 5 | **name** |  | People |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **name** |  | your neighbours |  |  |  |  |  | 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:123-neighbours-and-new-people.lesson:7`.

**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 ×2. **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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