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title: After a meal at a friend's house you thank the cook and offer to car… — A guest at the table, and manners on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: After a meal at a friend's house you thank the cook and offer to carry your plate. Who acts: you. 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 every clause.
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# A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 7

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After a meal at a friend's house you thank the cook and offer to carry your plate.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** thank, offer, carry · **To what, where:** cook, plate

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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 (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:7
# text = After a meal at a friend's house you thank the cook and offer to carry your plate.
# 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): no change
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | you | the cook |  |  | after a meal at a friend's house |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your plate |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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