--- title: The best compliments are about things people choose or do: a drawing… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics description: The best compliments are about things people choose or do: a drawing, a goal, their kindness, their effort, a tasty meal. Who acts: best compliments, people. 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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 (best compliments, 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:2 # text = The best compliments are about things people choose or do: a drawing, a goal, their kindness, their effort, a tasty meal. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 compliments compliment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 drawing drawing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 tasty tasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | the best compliments | | | | | about things | tree rules | | 2 | **choose** | present | people | things *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 3 | **do** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Compliments and respecting differences, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/0/) - next →: [Compliments and respecting differences, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/)