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title: A short message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card for… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics
description: A short message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card for a big gift shows real effort and is often kept. Who acts: short message, 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 sc
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# Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 6

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A short message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card for a big gift shows real effort and is often kept.

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**Who acts:** short message, handwritten card · **What happens:** be, handwrite, show, keep · **To what, where:** real effort

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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 (short message, 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:6
# text = A short message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card for a big gift shows real effort and is often kept.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	handwritten	handwrite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a short message |  |  |  |  | for small things; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **handwrite** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | present | a handwritten card for a big gift | real effort |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent effort=Recipient |
| 4 | **keep** | present · passive | a handwritten card for a big gift *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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