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title: A short thank-you note or card to each giver within a week or two sh… — Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you… · tree and pragmatics
description: A short thank-you note or card to each giver within a week or two shows real thanks; a message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts, and days out are gifts too. Who acts: short thank note, message, handwritten card, days. A sentence of the lesson «Phones, visitin
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# Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 3

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A short thank-you note or card to each giver within a week or two shows real thanks; a message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts, and days out are gifts too.

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**Who acts:** short thank note, message, handwritten card, days · **What happens:** show, be, handwrite, mean · **To what, where:** real thanks, more, gifts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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 (short thank note, message, handwritten card, days), 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:3
# text = A short thank-you note or card to each giver within a week or two shows real thanks; a message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts, and days out are gifts too.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	thank	thank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	flat	_	_
6	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
17	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	handwritten	handwrite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
34	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
41	out	out	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
44	too	too	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a short thank note to each giver or card | real thanks |  |  | week |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | a message |  |  |  |  | for small things; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **handwrite** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a handwritten card | more |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | present | days | gifts |  |  |  |  | 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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:3`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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