--- title: When someone compliments you, say «Thank you» instead of disagreeing. — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics description: When someone compliments you, say «Thank you» instead of disagreeing. Who acts: someone, you. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 8 When someone compliments you, say «Thank you» instead of disagreeing. **Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** compliment, say, thank, disagree · **To what, where:** you · **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 (someone, you), 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:8 # text = When someone compliments you, say «Thank you» instead of disagreeing. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 compliments compliment VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 11 instead instead ADV RB _ 13 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 disagreeing disagree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **compliment** | present | someone | you | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **disagree** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «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:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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