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title: Lonely older people are cheered by being noticed, and a check in bad… — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics
description: Lonely older people are cheered by being noticed, and a check in bad weather may help in an emergency. Who acts: check. 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 8

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Lonely older people are cheered by being noticed, and a check in bad weather may help in an emergency.

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**Who acts:** check · **What happens:** cheer, notice, help · **To what, where:** Lonely older people, emergency

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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 (check), 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:8
# text = Lonely older people are cheered by being noticed, and a check in bad weather may help in an emergency.
# 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 ×1
1	Lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **cheer** | present · passive |  | Lonely older people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **notice** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **help** | may | a check in bad weather |  |  | a emergency |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:8`.

**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 ×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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