--- title: In English-speaking countries looking at a person's face while you t… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: In English-speaking countries looking at a person's face while you talk shows you are listening and being honest. Who acts: 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Handshakes, waves and greetings around…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/) / 12 # Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 12 In English-speaking countries looking at a person's face while you talk shows you are listening and being honest. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** speak, look, talk, show, listen, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (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:12 # text = In English-speaking countries looking at a person's face while you talk shows you are listening and being honest. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 6 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 nsubj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 15 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 ccomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 cop _ _ 21 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | at a person's face; in speaking countries | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in country=Theme | | 3 | **talk** | present | you | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **show** | present | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **listen** | present · progressive | you | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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