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title: Walking a visitor to the door shows they were welcome. — Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry · tree and pragmatics
description: Walking a visitor to the door shows they were welcome. Who acts: Walking, People. 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 9

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Walking a visitor to the door shows they were welcome.

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**Who acts:** Walking, People · **What happens:** walk, show, be · **To what, where:** visitor, door · **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 (Walking, People), 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:9
# text = Walking a visitor to the door shows they were welcome.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  | a visitor |  | the door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme to door=Trajectory |
| 2 | **show** | present | Walking |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | People |  |  |  |  | welcome *property* | tree rules |

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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: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): R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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