--- title: A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes… — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and th… · tree and pragmatics description: A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes; a limp, floppy one can seem unfriendly or not interested. Who acts: good handshake, limp floppy one. 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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 (good handshake, limp floppy one), 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:6 # text = A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes; a limp, floppy one can seem unfriendly or not interested. # 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 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 handshake handshake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 conj _ _ 15 shakes shake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 limp limp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 floppy floppy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 unfriendly unfriendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 interested interested ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a good handshake | | | | | for two shakes; firm *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **be** | | a good handshake *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seem** | can | a limp floppy one | | | | | unfriendly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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/). - ← previous: [Respect for everyone, greetings, goodb…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table/5/) - next →: [Respect for everyone, greetings, goodb…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table/)