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title: When a present arrives by post, phone, message or write soon so the… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a present arrives by post, phone, message or write soon so the giver knows it arrived and that you liked it. Who acts: present, giver, you. A sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 14

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When a present arrives by post, phone, message or write soon so the giver knows it arrived and that you liked it.

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**Who acts:** present, giver, you · **What happens:** arrive, write, know, like · **To what, where:** giver · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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 (present, giver, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:14
# text = When a present arrives by post, phone, message or write soon so the giver knows it arrived and that you liked it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	list	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	list	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
12	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | a present |  |  |  |  | by post | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | infinitive | a present *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | present | the giver |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **arrive** | past | giver |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **like** | past | you | giver |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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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