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title: A girl in Sydney ignored her friend's grandmother when she said hell… — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Sydney ignored her friend's grandmother when she said hello; the grandmother felt hurt, and the friend's family did not invite her again for a long time. Who acts: girl, grandmother, family. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» of the everyday 
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# Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 19

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A girl in Sydney ignored her friend's grandmother when she said hello; the grandmother felt hurt, and the friend's family did not invite her again for a long time.

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**Who acts:** girl, grandmother, family · **What happens:** ignore, say, feel, not invite · **To what, where:** grandmother · **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 (girl, grandmother, family), 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:19
# text = A girl in Sydney ignored her friend's grandmother when she said hello; the grandmother felt hurt, and the friend's family did not invite her again for a long time.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	hurt	hurt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | past | a girl in Sydney | girl's friend's grandmother |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |
| 3 | **feel** | past | the grandmother |  |  |  |  | hurt *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **invite** | past · do-support | the friend's family |  | grandmother |  | again; time |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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:19`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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