--- title: Never stand chopsticks upright in rice, because in some Asian cultur… — Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Never stand chopsticks upright in rice, because in some Asian cultures it looks like a funeral custom; it is fine to ask for a fork. Who acts: you, food. 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 d --- [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/25/) [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/) / 25 # Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 25 Never stand chopsticks upright in rice, because in some Asian cultures it looks like a funeral custom; it is fine to ask for a fork. **Who acts:** you, food · **What happens:** not stand, look, be, ask · **To what, where:** chopsticks, rice 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, food), 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:25 # text = Never stand chopsticks upright in rice, because in some Asian cultures it looks like a funeral custom; it is fine to ask for a fork. # 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 ×3 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 chopsticks chopstick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 upright upright ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 11 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cultures culture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 custom custom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 fork fork NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* | chopsticks | | rice | | upright *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chopstick=Theme in rice=Destination | | 2 | **look** | present | food | | | | | like a funeral custom; in some Asian cultures | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in culture=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | | for a fork | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:25`. **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 ×3. **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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