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title: A child new to the country is still learning the customs, so explain… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: A child new to the country is still learning the customs, so explain kindly how things work. Who acts: child, things. 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.
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# Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 21

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A child new to the country is still learning the customs, so explain kindly how things work.

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**Who acts:** child, things · **What happens:** learn, explain, work · **To what, where:** customs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (child, things), 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:21
# text = A child new to the country is still learning the customs, so explain kindly how things work.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
15	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **learn** | present · progressive | a child | the customs |  |  | still |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Topic |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **work** | present | things |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:21`.

**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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