--- title: Customs differ between countries, and learning them before you visit… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: Customs differ between countries, and learning them before you visit avoids upsetting people. Who acts: Customs, you, learning. 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 e --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 20 Customs differ between countries, and learning them before you visit avoids upsetting people. **Who acts:** Customs, you, learning · **What happens:** differ, learn, visit, avoid · **To what, where:** countries, upsetting people 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 (Customs, you, learning), 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:20 # text = Customs differ between countries, and learning them before you visit avoids upsetting people. # 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): no change 1 Customs custom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 differ differ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 between between ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 visit visit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 avoids avoid VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 upsetting upsetting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **differ** | present | Customs | | | | | between countries | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **learn** | gerund | | countries *= country* | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 3 | **visit** | present | you | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **avoid** | present | learning | upsetting people | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location | 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:20`. **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): no change. **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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/18/) - next →: [Handshakes, waves and greetings around…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/)