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title: Asking politely about a festival usually brings friendship, while mo… — Respecting the festivals and traditions of class… · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking politely about a festival usually brings friendship, while mocking brings hurt. Who acts: Asking. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates, sentence 21

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Asking politely about a festival usually brings friendship, while mocking brings hurt.

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**Who acts:** Asking · **What happens:** ask, bring, mock · **To what, where:** friendship, hurt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» 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 (Asking), 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:21
# text = Asking politely about a festival usually brings friendship, while mocking brings hurt.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
2	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	nsubj	_	_
12	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about a festival; politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about festival=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | present | Asking | friendship |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent friendship=Theme |
| 3 | **mock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | present |  | hurt |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hurt=Theme |

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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:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.lesson:21`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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