--- title: Families and faiths differ: some say grace before eating, so you wai… — A guest at the table, and manners on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: Families and faiths differ: some say grace before eating, so you wait quietly; a friend fasting in Ramadan deserves kindness, never teasing; with chopsticks, you never stand them upright in rice, which looks like a funeral custom in some Asian cultures. Who acts: Families, some, grace, you. 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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 (Families, some, grace, you), 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:1 # text = Families and faiths differ: some say grace before eating, so you wait quietly; a friend fasting in Ramadan deserves kindness, never teasing; with chopsticks, you never stand them upright in rice, which looks like a funeral custom in some Asian cultures. # 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 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 faiths faith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 differ differ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 fasting fast VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Ramadan Ramadan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 deserves deserve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 chopsticks chopstick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:parataxis 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 upright upright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obl 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 custom custom NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 48 det _ _ 47 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 cultures culture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **differ** | present | Families and faiths | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | grace | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | grace *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wait** | present | you | | | | | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fast** | gerund | a friend *not said here* | | | Ramadan | | | tree rules | | 6 | **deserve** | present | a friend | kindness | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **tease** | gerund | a friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **stand** | infinitive | you | chopsticks *= chopstick* | | rice | | with chopsticks; upright *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in rice=Destination | | 9 | **look** | present | rice | | | | | like a funeral custom; in some Asian cultures | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in culture=Theme | 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:1`. **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. **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: [A guest at the table, and manners on t…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/0/) - next →: [A guest at the table, and manners on t…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/)