--- title: Greetings differ around the world: people in Japan bow, adults in Fr… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: Greetings differ around the world: people in Japan bow, adults in France, Italy and Spain often greet with cheek kisses, and in New Zealand people say "Kia ora" and may share a hongi, pressing noses and foreheads. Who acts: Greetings, people, adults, Zealand people. 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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 (Greetings, people, adults, Zealand people), 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:3 # text = Greetings differ around the world: people in Japan bow, adults in France, Italy and Spain often greet with cheek kisses, and in New Zealand people say "Kia ora" and may share a hongi, pressing noses and foreheads. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Greetings greeting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 differ differ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 around around ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 bow bow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 kisses kiss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 28 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Kia Kia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 ora ora PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 hongi hongi NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Foreign=Yes 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 pressing press VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 42 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 foreheads forehead NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **differ** | present | Greetings | | | the world | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bow** | present | people in Japan | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | infinitive | adults in France and Italy and Spain *not said here* | | | | | with cheek kisses; often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Zealand people | Kia | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kia=Topic | | 5 | **share** | may | Zealand people *not said here* | a hongi | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **press** | gerund | Zealand people *not said here* | noses and foreheads | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme | 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. 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