--- title: Respect means being curious and kind: asking polite questions, sayin… — Respecting the festivals and traditions of class… · tree and pragmatics description: Respect means being curious and kind: asking polite questions, saying «Happy Diwali» or «Eid Mubarak», and never laughing at someone's food, clothes or customs. Who acts: Respect. 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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 (Respect), 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:3 # text = Respect means being curious and kind: asking polite questions, saying «Happy Diwali» or «Eid Mubarak», and never laughing at 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 4 cop _ _ 4 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 9 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 Diwali Diwali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Eid Eid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 Mubarak Mubarak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 29 conj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 customs custom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=31:conj 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Respect | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund | Respect *not said here* | | | | | curious *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Respect *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Respect *not said here* | polite questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Respect *not said here* | Happy Diwali and Eid | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent diwali=Topic | | 6 | **not** **laugh** | gerund | Respect *not said here* | | | someone's food and clothes or customs | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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