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title: In France, Italy and Spain adults often greet with cheek kisses, but… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: In France, Italy and Spain adults often greet with cheek kisses, but a child may follow their lead or simply wave or shake hands. Who acts: adults, child. A sentence of the lesson «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 14

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In France, Italy and Spain adults often greet with cheek kisses, but a child may follow their lead or simply wave or shake hands.

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**Who acts:** adults, child · **What happens:** greet, follow, wave, shake · **To what, where:** France, lead, hands

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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 (adults, child), 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:14
# text = In France, Italy and Spain adults often greet with cheek kisses, but a child may follow their lead or simply wave or shake 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
4	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	wave	wave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | adults |  |  | France and Italy and Spain |  | with cheek kisses; often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | may | a child | adults's lead |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme |
| 3 | **wave** | infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shake** | infinitive | a child *not said here* | hands |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |

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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:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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