--- title: Presents are about kindness, not money: you thank everyone, never co… — Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you… · tree and pragmatics description: Presents are about kindness, not money: you thank everyone, never compare prices, and protect the giver's feelings, for example when you get the same present twice. Who acts: Presents, you. 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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 (Presents, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:2 # text = Presents are about kindness, not money: you thank everyone, never compare prices, and protect the giver's feelings, for example when you get the same present twice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.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 1 Presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 compare compare VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 protect protect VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 giver giver NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 28 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Presents | | | | | about kindness and money | tree rules | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | you | everyone | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme | | 3 | **not** **compare** | infinitive | you *not said here* | prices | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient | | 4 | **protect** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the giver's feelings | | | | for example | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Beneficiary | | 5 | **get** | present | you | the same present | | | | twice *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus | 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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:2`. **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. **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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