--- title: Wait until everyone is seated and served before eating, unless the h… — Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait until everyone is seated and served before eating, unless the host says to start. Who acts: you, host. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 20 Wait until everyone is seated and served before eating, unless the host says to start. **Who acts:** you, host · **What happens:** wait, seat, serve, eat, say, start · **To what, where:** everyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, host), 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:20 # text = Wait until everyone is seated and served before eating, unless the host says to start. # 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 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 until until SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 . . 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 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **seat** | present · passive | | everyone | | | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | | 3 | **serve** | participle | | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the host | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **start** | to-infinitive | the host *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:20`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/19/) - next →: [Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/)