--- title: Say «Please» when you ask and «Thank you» when you get something, in… — Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Say «Please» when you ask and «Thank you» when you get something, in shops and cafés too; in parts of England people also say «Ta» for thank you. Who acts: you, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:18 # text = Say «Please» when you ask and «Thank you» when you get something, in shops and cafés too; in parts of England people also say «Ta» for thank you. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Please please INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ _ 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 cafés café NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 also also ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Ta Ta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **get** | present | you | something | | shops and cafés | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | Ta | | parts England | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent ta=Theme in part=Manner | | 6 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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:18`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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