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title: You say "please" and "thank you" to staff in shops and cafés. — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: You say "please" and "thank you" to staff in shops and cafés. Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 12

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You say "please" and "thank you" to staff in shops and cafés.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** say, thank · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» 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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:12
# text = You say "please" and "thank you" to staff in shops and cafés.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	2	obj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
12	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cafés	café	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent please=Topic |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | You *not said here* |  | you |  |  | to staff in shops and cafés | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:12`.

**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/).

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