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title: An email or message is fine to thank someone for small things, but a… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics
description: An email or message is fine to thank someone for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts. Who acts: email, handwritten card. 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
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# Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 16

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An email or message is fine to thank someone for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts.

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**Who acts:** email, handwritten card · **What happens:** be, thank, mean · **To what, where:** someone, more

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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 (email, handwritten card), 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:16
# text = An email or message is fine to thank someone for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:csubj
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	handwritten	handwritten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
17	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a email or message |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | a email or message *not said here* | someone |  |  |  | for small things | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme for thing=Attribute |
| 3 | **mean** | present | a handwritten card | more |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |

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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:16`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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