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title: At the table you wait until everyone is seated and served, eat quiet… — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the table you wait until everyone is seated and served, eat quietly, wait for food to be offered, and ask before taking the last piece. 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 depend
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# Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 3

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At the table you wait until everyone is seated and served, eat quietly, wait for food to be offered, and ask before taking the last piece.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, seat, serve, eat, offer, ask · **To what, where:** table, everyone, last piece

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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:3
# text = At the table you wait until everyone is seated and served, eat quietly, wait for food to be offered, and ask before taking the last piece.
# 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): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **wait** | present | you |  |  | the table |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location |
| 2 | **seat** | present · passive |  | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 3 | **serve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for food | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **offer** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)» |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **take** | gerund | you *not said here* | the last piece |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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**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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