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title: His classmates listen patiently, show him how lunch works and ask ab… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: His classmates listen patiently, show him how lunch works and ask about the festivals his family keeps, and soon he feels at home. Who acts: classmates, lunch, family. A sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 7

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His classmates listen patiently, show him how lunch works and ask about the festivals his family keeps, and soon he feels at home.

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**Who acts:** classmates, lunch, family · **What happens:** listen, show, work, ask, keep, feel · **To what, where:** boy, festivals, home · **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 (classmates, lunch, family), 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:7
# text = His classmates listen patiently, show him how lunch works and ask about the festivals his family keeps, and soon he feels at home.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	classmates	classmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis
4	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
6	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod:poss
17	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | present | boy's classmates |  |  |  |  | patiently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | infinitive | boy's classmates *not said here* |  | boy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **work** | present | lunch |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | boy's classmates *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the festivals | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about festival=Topic |
| 5 | **keep** | present | lunch's family | the festivals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Theme |
| 6 | **feel** | present | lunch |  |  | home |  | soon *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location |

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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:7`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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