--- title: When your hands are dirty or you have a cold, you explain and wave o… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: When your hands are dirty or you have a cold, you explain and wave or smile instead, because nobody wants a sticky hand and germs spread through hands. Who acts: hands, you, nobody, germs. 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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 (hands, you, nobody, germs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.lesson:1 # text = When your hands are dirty or you have a cold, you explain and wave or smile instead, because nobody wants a sticky hand and germs spread through hands. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 wave wave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 smile smile VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 instead instead ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 nsubj _ _ 22 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 through through ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | your hands | | | | | dirty *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | you | a cold | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wave** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **smile** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | instead *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **want** | present | nobody | a sticky hand | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme | | 7 | **spread** | present | germs | | | hands | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hand=Location | 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:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Greeting neighbours and new people, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/19/) - next →: [Handshakes, waves and greetings around…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/)