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title: For birthday or holiday presents, write a short thank-you note or ca… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics
description: For birthday or holiday presents, write a short thank-you note or card to each giver within a week or two. Who acts: 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 dependency tree and the 
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# Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 15

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For birthday or holiday presents, write a short thank-you note or card to each giver within a week or two.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** write · **To what, where:** short thank note

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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 (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:15
# text = For birthday or holiday presents, write a short thank-you note or card to each giver within a week or two.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	thank	thank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	flat	_	_
13	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **write** | imperative | you *not said here* | a short thank note or card |  |  | week | for birthday presents; to each giver | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent note=Result for present=Beneficiary |

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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:15`.

**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/).

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