--- title: A girl in Vancouver meets her dad's friend who uses a wheelchair; sh… — More greetings and making introductions · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Vancouver meets her dad's friend who uses a wheelchair; she greets him just as she greets anyone, and during the long chat she sits down so they are at the same eye level. Who acts: girl, friend, name. 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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 (girl, friend, name), 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:4 # text = A girl in Vancouver meets her dad's friend who uses a wheelchair; she greets him just as she greets anyone, and during the long chat she sits down so they are at the same eye level. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Vancouver Vancouver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wheelchair wheelchair NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 greets greet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 greets greet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 22 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 during during ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 so so SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 advcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | present | a girl in Vancouver | girl's dad's friend | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent | | 2 | **use** | present | girl's dad's friend | a wheelchair | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelchair=Patient | | 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | girl | | Vancouver | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | girl | anyone | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | | 5 | **sit down** | present | girl | | | | during the long chat | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | name | | | the same eye level | | | tree rules | 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:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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: [More greetings and making introductions, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/3/) - next →: [More greetings and making introductions, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/)