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title: Some foods are finger foods, like pizza, sandwiches, chips and chick… — A guest at the table, and manners on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Some foods are finger foods, like pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks; most others are eaten with a knife and fork. Who acts: foods. A sentence of the lesson «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 2

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Some foods are finger foods, like pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks; most others are eaten with a knife and fork.

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**Who acts:** foods · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** finger foods, most others

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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 (foods), 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:2
# text = Some foods are finger foods, like pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks; most others are eaten with a knife and fork.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
10	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	drumsticks	drumstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **is a** | present | some foods | finger foods |  |  |  | like pizza and sandwiches and chips and chicken drumsticks | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present · passive |  | most others |  |  |  | with a knife and fork | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:2`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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