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title: Pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks are finger foods, an… — A guest at the table, and manners on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks are finger foods, and most other foods are eaten with cutlery. Who acts: Pizza. 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 pragmatics of eve
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# A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 5

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Pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks are finger foods, and most other foods are eaten with cutlery.

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

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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 (Pizza), 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:5
# text = Pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks are finger foods, and most other foods are eaten with cutlery.
# 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 ×2, R5-strong ×1
1	Pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
3	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	drumsticks	drumstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	cutlery	cutlery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | Pizza and sandwiches and chips and chicken drumsticks | finger foods |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present · passive |  | most other foods |  |  |  | with cutlery | 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:5`.

**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 ×2, R5-strong ×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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