--- title: "How's it going?" from someone walking past is a greeting, and "Good… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: "How's it going?" from someone walking past is a greeting, and "Good, thanks!" is the expected answer. Who acts: child, going. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, going), 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:16 # text = "How's it going?" from someone walking past is a greeting, and "Good, thanks!" is the expected answer. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 9 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj 10 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 discourse _ _ 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | child | someone | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | going | | | a greeting and the expected answer | | | tree rules | | 4 | **expect** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | going *not said here* | the expected answer | | | | | 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:16`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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