---
title: «My other half» or «my partner» means someone's husband, wife or par… — Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How… · tree and pragmatics
description: «My other half» or «my partner» means someone's husband, wife or partner, and «hubby» is a friendly word for husband. Who acts: other half, hubby. A sentence of the lesson «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and ta
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Manners: greeting every worker, handsh…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners/) / 11

# Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«My other half» or «my partner» means someone's husband, wife or partner, and «hubby» is a friendly word for husband.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** other half, hubby · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** husband, friendly word

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners» 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 (other half, hubby), 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:11
# text = «My other half» or «my partner» means someone's husband, wife or partner, and «hubby» is a friendly word for husband.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	nsubj	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	hubby	hubby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | My other half and my partner | someone's husband and wife or partner |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | hubby | a friendly word |  |  |  | for husband | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:11`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Manners: greeting every worker, handsh…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners/8/)
- next →: [Manners: greeting every worker, handsh…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners/12/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners/)

