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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 (you, I, gentle refusal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:0 # text = At someone else's table you wait until food is offered, follow the family's customs, and say "No, thank you" instead of "I hate that", because a gentle refusal does not hurt the cook. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 else else ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 5 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 until until SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:xcomp 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 customs custom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 24 discourse _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 instead instead ADV RB _ 31 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod 28 of of ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hate hate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 that that PRON DT PronType=Dem 31 obj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 because because SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 refusal refusal NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | present | you | | | someone's table | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location | | 2 | **offer** | present · passive | | food | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the family's customs | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 6 | **hate** *in a quote* | present | I | that | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 7 | **not** **hurt** | present · do-support | a gentle refusal | the cook | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cook=Patient | 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:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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