--- title: If you have a cold, you explain and wave instead of shaking hands, b… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: If you have a cold, you explain and wave instead of shaking hands, because germs spread through hands. Who acts: you, germs. 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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 (you, germs), 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:7 # text = If you have a cold, you explain and wave instead of shaking hands, because germs spread through hands. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 wave wave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 10 advmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 shaking shake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 obl _ _ 14 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 18 mark _ _ 17 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a cold | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wave** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | instead *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **shake** | gerund | | hands | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 5 | **spread** | present | germs | | | hands | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hand=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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Handshakes, waves and greetings around…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/6/) - next →: [Handshakes, waves and greetings around…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/)