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title: At someone else's table, wait until food is offered or ask politely… — Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: At someone else's table, wait until food is offered or ask politely instead of grabbing. Who acts: you. 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 clause.
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# Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 24

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At someone else's table, wait until food is offered or ask politely instead of grabbing.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, offer, ask, grab · **To what, where:** table, food

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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 (you), 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:24
# text = At someone else's table, wait until food is offered or ask politely instead of grabbing.
# 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): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	grabbing	grab	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | someone's table |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location |
| 2 | **offer** | present · passive |  | food |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grab** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:24`.

**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): no change. **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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