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title: Saying goodbye or thank you to the bus driver or teacher thanks them… — Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying goodbye or thank you to the bus driver or teacher thanks them for looking after you. Who acts: Saying. A sentence of the lesson «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry, sentence 8

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Saying goodbye or thank you to the bus driver or teacher thanks them for looking after you.

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**Who acts:** Saying · **What happens:** say, thank, look · **To what, where:** goodbye, you, People · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» 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 (Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry.lesson:8
# text = Saying goodbye or thank you to the bus driver or teacher thanks them for looking after you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry.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	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	thanks	thank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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* | gerund |  | goodbye |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present |  |  | you |  |  | to the bus driver or teacher | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | Saying |  | People |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | Saying *not said here* |  |  |  | after you |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry.lesson:8`.

**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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