--- title: Some people do not shake hands, for example for religious reasons; y… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: Some people do not shake hands, for example for religious reasons; you never insist, and a smile, a nod or a hand on your heart is fine. Who acts: people, you, smile. 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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 (people, you, smile), 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:2 # text = Some people do not shake hands, for example for religious reasons; you never insist, and a smile, a nod or a hand on your heart is fine. # 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 religious religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 insist insist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 nod nod NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 27 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **shake** | present · do-support | some people | hands | | | | for example; for religious reasons | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 2 | **not** **insist** *speech: other* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | a smile and a nod or a hand your heart | | | | | fine *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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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