--- title: Many people in Japan bow to greet and to thank, and a small bow back… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: Many people in Japan bow to greet and to thank, and a small bow back is polite. Who acts: Many people, bow back. 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. --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 13 Many people in Japan bow to greet and to thank, and a small bow back is polite. **Who acts:** Many people, bow back · **What happens:** bow, greet, thank, be 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 (Many people, bow back), 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:13 # text = Many people in Japan bow to greet and to thank, and a small bow back is polite. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 5 bow bow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 thank thank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod 15 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bow** | present | Many people in Japan | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | Many people in Japan *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | Many people in Japan *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | bow back | | | | | polite *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:13`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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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