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title: A girl from Leeds on holiday in Japan walked into a home with her sh… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl from Leeds on holiday in Japan walked into a home with her shoes on; the family was upset, and she felt embarrassed when her mum explained the custom. Who acts: girl, family, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» of the everyday course of Mova's prim
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# Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 18

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A girl from Leeds on holiday in Japan walked into a home with her shoes on; the family was upset, and she felt embarrassed when her mum explained the custom.

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**Who acts:** girl, family, mum · **What happens:** walk, be, feel, explain · **To what, where:** home, custom

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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 (girl, family, mum), 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:18
# text = A girl from Leeds on holiday in Japan walked into a home with her shoes on; the family was upset, and she felt embarrassed when her mum explained the custom.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
9	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **walk** | past | a girl from Leeds on holiday in Japan |  |  |  |  | into a home *result*; with girl's shoes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into home=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | the family |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | embarrassed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | girl's mum | the custom |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Topic |

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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:18`.

**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. **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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