--- title: Showing respect means asking polite questions, using kind greetings… — Respecting the festivals and traditions of class… · tree and pragmatics description: Showing respect means asking polite questions, using kind greetings and never mocking someone's food, clothes or customs. Who acts: Showing. 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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 (Showing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.lesson:15 # text = Showing respect means asking polite questions, using kind greetings and never mocking someone's food, clothes or customs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.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 ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj 2 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 5 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 9 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 greetings greeting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 12 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 mocking mock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 16 conj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 20 customs custom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | gerund | | respect | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | | 2 | **mean** | present | Showing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | gerund | Showing *not said here* | polite questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 4 | **use** | gerund | Showing *not said here* | kind greetings | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Patient | | 5 | **not** **mock** | gerund | Showing *not said here* | someone's food and clothes or customs | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | 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:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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