--- title: In New Zealand, the Maori hongi, pressing noses and foreheads, means… — Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and t… · tree and pragmatics description: In New Zealand, the Maori hongi, pressing noses and foreheads, means sharing breath; it is done when you are invited to. Who acts: Maori hongi. 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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 (Maori hongi), 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:5 # text = In New Zealand, the Maori hongi, pressing noses and foreheads, means sharing breath; it is done when you are invited to. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 New New PROPN NNP _ 3 amod _ _ 3 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Maori Maori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 hongi hongi X FW Foreign=Yes 14 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 pressing press VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 foreheads forehead NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 sharing share VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:ccomp 16 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 25 to to PART TO _ 24 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **press** | gerund | the Maori hongi *not said here* | noses and foreheads | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | the Maori hongi | | | New Zealand | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **share** *not said to happen* | gerund | the Maori hongi *not said here* | breath | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | present · passive | | breath | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **invite** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | 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:5`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/4/) - next →: [Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/)