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title: A wave greets someone when you are too far away to talk. — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: A wave greets someone when you are too far away to talk. Who acts: wave, you. A sentence of the lesson «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 10

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A wave greets someone when you are too far away to talk.

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**Who acts:** wave, you · **What happens:** greet, be, talk · **To what, where:** someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» 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 (wave, you), 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:10
# text = A wave greets someone when you are too far away to talk.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	greets	greet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | a wave | someone |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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