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title: "How's it going?" said while walking past is a greeting, and a quick… — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: "How's it going?" said while walking past is a greeting, and a quick "Good, thanks!" is enough. Who acts: handshake, walking, quick Good thanks. 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
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# Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 8

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"How's it going?" said while walking past is a greeting, and a quick "Good, thanks!" is enough.

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**Who acts:** handshake, walking, quick Good thanks · **What happens:** go, say, walk, be · **To what, where:** greeting · **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 (handshake, walking, quick Good thanks), 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:8
# text = "How's it going?" said while walking past is a greeting, and a quick "Good, thanks!" is enough.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl
11	past	past	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
20	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | handshake |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | walking | a greeting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | a quick Good thanks |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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