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title: If your hand is dirty, wet or sticky, you say sorry and wave or smil… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: If your hand is dirty, wet or sticky, you say sorry and wave or smile instead. Who acts: hand, you. 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 6

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If your hand is dirty, wet or sticky, you say sorry and wave or smile instead.

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**Who acts:** hand, you · **What happens:** be, say, wave, smile · **To what, where:** sorry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hand, you), 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:6
# text = If your hand is dirty, wet or sticky, you say sorry and wave or smile instead.
# 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 ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wave	wave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	smile	smile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your hand |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | your hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | your hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 5 | **wave** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **smile** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:6`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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