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title: Never stand chopsticks upright in rice; in some Asian cultures it lo… — Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never stand chopsticks upright in rice; in some Asian cultures it looks like a funeral custom. Who acts: you, rice. 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 co
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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 19

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Never stand chopsticks upright in rice; in some Asian cultures it looks like a funeral custom.

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**Who acts:** you, rice · **What happens:** not stand, look · **To what, where:** chopsticks, rice

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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, rice), 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:19
# text = Never stand chopsticks upright in rice; in some Asian cultures it looks like a funeral custom.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* | chopsticks |  | rice |  | upright *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chopstick=Theme in rice=Destination |
| 2 | **look** | present | rice |  |  |  |  | like a funeral custom; in some Asian cultures | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in culture=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:19`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

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

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