--- title: Telling a cook the meal was delicious lets them know their work was… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a cook the meal was delicious lets them know their work was enjoyed. Who acts: meal, Telling, drawing. 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 every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Compliments and respecting differences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/) / 12 # Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 12 Telling a cook the meal was delicious lets them know their work was enjoyed. **Who acts:** meal, Telling, drawing · **What happens:** tell, be, let, know, enjoy, work · **To what, where:** cook, drawing, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (meal, Telling, drawing), 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:12 # text = Telling a cook the meal was delicious lets them know their work was enjoyed. # 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 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 iobj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ _ 8 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a cook | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | past | the meal | | | | | delicious *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **let** | present | Telling | drawing | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | infinitive | drawing *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **enjoy** | past · passive | | drawing's work | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 6 | **work** | | drawing | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:12`. **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/). - ← previous: [Compliments and respecting differences, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/11/) - next →: [Compliments and respecting differences, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/)