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title: At someone else's table, wait until food is offered, or ask politely… — Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How… · tree and pragmatics
description: At someone else's table, wait until food is offered, or ask politely, instead of grabbing it. Who acts: you. 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
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# Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 18

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At someone else's table, wait until food is offered, or ask politely, instead of grabbing it.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, offer, ask, grab · **To what, where:** table, food

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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 (you), 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:18
# text = At someone else's table, wait until food is offered, or ask politely, instead of grabbing it.
# 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): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	grabbing	grab	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | someone's table |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location |
| 2 | **offer** | present · passive |  | food |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grab** | gerund | you *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:18`.

**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): no change. **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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