--- title: If a child new to the country does not know the customs, explain kin… — Compliments, respecting differences and disabili… · tree and pragmatics description: If a child new to the country does not know the customs, explain kindly how things work, because help makes them feel welcome. Who acts: child, you, things, help. 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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 (child, you, things, help), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.lesson:14 # text = If a child new to the country does not know the customs, explain kindly how things work, because help makes them feel welcome. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.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 ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 customs custom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 explain explain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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 | **not** **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | a child | the customs | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer custom=Stimulus | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | kindly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **work** | present | things | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | help | things *= thing* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | | welcome *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.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): R7-rel-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. 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