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title: «How's it going?» said while walking past is a greeting; a quick «Go… — Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: «How's it going?» said while walking past is a greeting; a quick «Good, thanks!» is the expected answer. Who acts: Maori hongi, quick « Good. 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 dependency tr
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# Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 11

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«How's it going?» said while walking past is a greeting; a quick «Good, thanks!» is the expected answer.

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**Who acts:** Maori hongi, quick « Good · **What happens:** go, say, walk, be, expect · **To what, where:** past, greeting, expected answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Maori hongi, quick « Good), 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:11
# text = «How's it going?» said while walking past is a greeting; a quick «Good, thanks!» is the expected answer.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	nsubj	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	«	«	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Good	Good	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Maori hongi *= hongi* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund |  | past |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme past=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | a greeting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **expect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | a quick « Good | the expected answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.lesson:11`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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