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title: When a present comes by post, phone, message or write soon to say th… — Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to spea… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a present comes by post, phone, message or write soon to say thank you, so the giver knows it arrived and that you liked it. Who acts: present, giver, you. A sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates wit
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# Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities, sentence 1

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When a present comes by post, phone, message or write soon to say thank you, so the giver knows it arrived and that you liked it.

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**Who acts:** present, giver, you · **What happens:** come, write, say, thank, know, arrive · **To what, where:** you, giver · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities» 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 (present, giver, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.lesson:1
# text = When a present comes by post, phone, message or write soon to say thank you, so the giver knows it arrived and that you liked it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:list
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:list
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
12	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp
16	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | present | a present |  |  |  |  | by post and phone and message | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by post=Location |
| 2 | **write** | infinitive | a present *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a present *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | infinitive |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | present | the giver |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **arrive** | past | giver |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **like** | past | you | giver |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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