--- title: The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand: people pre… — Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and t… · tree and pragmatics description: The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand: people press noses and foreheads to share breath, done when invited. Who acts: hongi, people. A sentence of the lesson «Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/10/) [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/) / [Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/) / 10 # Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 10 The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand: people press noses and foreheads to share breath, done when invited. **Who acts:** hongi, people · **What happens:** be, press, share, do, invite · **To what, where:** traditional Maori greeting, New Zealand, breath This is a sentence of the lesson «Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners» 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 (hongi, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.lesson:10 # text = The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand: people press noses and foreheads to share breath, done when invited. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 2 hongi hongi X FW Foreign=Yes 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 traditional traditional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 Maori Maori ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound 13 press press NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 foreheads forehead NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 19 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 23 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 a** | present | the hongi | a traditional Maori greeting | | New Zealand | | press noses and foreheads *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **press** | | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **share** | to-infinitive | the hongi *not said here* | breath | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | participle | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **invite** | participle | | | | | | | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: 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:296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.lesson:10`. **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, 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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