--- title: When you receive a gift, you say thank you and maybe write a card, t… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: When you receive a gift, you say thank you and maybe write a card, to show you value the giver's kindness. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Speaking up, saying no and growing up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/) / 14 # Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 14 When you receive a gift, you say thank you and maybe write a card, to show you value the giver's kindness. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** receive, say, thank, write, show, value · **To what, where:** gift, you, card, kindness · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:14 # text = When you receive a gift, you say thank you and maybe write a card, to show you value the giver's kindness. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 receive receive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 value value VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 giver giver NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | present | you | a gift | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **write** | infinitive | | a card | | | | maybe *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | | 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **value** | infinitive | you | the giver's kindness | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kindness=Stimulus | 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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:14`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Speaking up, saying no and growing up, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/13/) - next →: [Speaking up, saying no and growing up, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/)