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title: If someone's name is said wrongly, you gently give the right name or… — More greetings and making introductions · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone's name is said wrongly, you gently give the right name or let the person correct it. Who acts: you, person, someone. A sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# More greetings and making introductions, sentence 11

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If someone's name is said wrongly, you gently give the right name or let the person correct it.

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**Who acts:** you, person, someone · **What happens:** say, give, let, correct, name · **To what, where:** name, right name, introduction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» 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 (you, person, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:11
# text = If someone's name is said wrongly, you gently give the right name or let the person correct it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 125-greetings-and-introductions.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
7	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	correct	correct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | someone's name |  |  |  | wrongly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | present | you | the right name |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | infinitive | the person | introduction |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **name** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:11`.

**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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