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title: Compliment things people choose, like their drawing, kindness or eff… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Compliment things people choose, like their drawing, kindness or effort, rather than their body or weight. Who acts: things people, people. A sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 11

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Compliment things people choose, like their drawing, kindness or effort, rather than their body or weight.

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**Who acts:** things people, people · **What happens:** choose, draw · **To what, where:** drawing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» 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 (things people, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:11
# text = Compliment things people choose, like their drawing, kindness or effort, rather than their body or weight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.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	Compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **choose** | present | things people | people's drawing and kindness or effort and people's body or weight |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:11`.

**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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