--- title: Chopsticks are never stuck upright in rice, because in some Asian cu… — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and th… · tree and pragmatics description: Chopsticks are never stuck upright in rice, because in some Asian cultures that looks like a funeral custom, and it is fine to ask for a fork. Who acts: Asian cultures. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Asian cultures), 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:17 # text = Chopsticks are never stuck upright in rice, because in some Asian cultures that looks like a funeral custom, and it is fine to ask for a fork. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Chopsticks chopstick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 upright upright ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 15 mark _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 12 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cultures culture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 custom custom NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 fork fork NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stick** | present · passive | | Chopsticks | | rice | | in some Asian cultures; upright *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in rice=Destination | | 2 | **look** | present | some Asian cultures | | | | | like a funeral custom | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | some Asian cultures *not said here* | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | | for a fork | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:17`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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. 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