--- title: When someone introduces themselves, you answer "Nice to meet you, I'… — More greetings and making introductions · tree and pragmatics description: When someone introduces themselves, you answer "Nice to meet you, I'm ..." to finish the introduction. Who acts: someone, you. 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 claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [More greetings and making introductions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/) / 9 # More greetings and making introductions, sentence 9 When someone introduces themselves, you answer "Nice to meet you, I'm ..." to finish the introduction. **Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** introduce, answer, meet, finish · **To what, where:** name, you, introduction · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (someone, you), 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:9 # text = When someone introduces themselves, you answer "Nice to meet you, I'm ..." to finish the introduction. # 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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 introduces introduce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 answer answer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 ... ... PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 introduction introduction NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **introduce** | present | someone | name | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | you | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | | 4 | **finish** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the introduction | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality introduction=Eventuality | 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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [More greetings and making introductions, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/8/) - next →: [More greetings and making introductions, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/)