--- title: "Kia ora" is a Maori greeting used in New Zealand that means hello a… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: "Kia ora" is a Maori greeting used in New Zealand that means hello and good health. Who acts: Kia, Maori greeting. 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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 15 "Kia ora" is a Maori greeting used in New Zealand that means hello and good health. **Who acts:** Kia, Maori greeting · **What happens:** be, use, mean · **To what, where:** Maori greeting, New Zealand, hello 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 (Kia, Maori greeting), 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:15 # text = "Kia ora" is a Maori greeting used in New Zealand that means hello and good health. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Kia Kia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 ora ora PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Maori maori NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 New New PROPN NNP _ 12 flat _ _ 12 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 15 hello hello NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Kia | a Maori greeting | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | participle | | a Maori greeting *not said here* | | New Zealand | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | a Maori greeting | hello and good health | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hello=Topic | 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:15`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Handshakes, waves and greetings around…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/14/) - next →: [Handshakes, waves and greetings around…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/)