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title: A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes. — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes. Who acts: good handshake. 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 every clause.
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# Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 5

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A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes.

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**Who acts:** good handshake · **What happens:** be, not be

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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 (good handshake), 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:5
# text = A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	handshake	handshake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	shakes	shake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a good handshake |  |  |  |  | for two shakes; firm *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** |  | a good handshake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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/).

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