--- title: A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes… — Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How… · tree and pragmatics description: A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes: a floppy hand seems unfriendly and a crushing one hurts. Who acts: good handshake, floppy hand, crushing one. 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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 (good handshake, floppy hand, crushing one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:1 # text = A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes: a floppy hand seems unfriendly and a crushing one hurts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 handshake handshake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 conj _ _ 15 shakes shake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 floppy floppy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 unfriendly unfriendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 crushing crush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing 26 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a good handshake | | | | | for two shakes; firm *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **be** | | a good handshake *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seem** | present | a floppy hand | | | | | unfriendly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **crush** | gerund | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hurt** | present | a crushing one | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:1`. **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): R8-pos-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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