--- title: Saying thank you for a present tells the giver their care was notice… — When you want what others have · tree and pragmatics description: Saying thank you for a present tells the giver their care was noticed, which often means more to them than the present. Who acts: Saying, giver, stories. 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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 (Saying, giver, stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:17 # text = Saying thank you for a present tells the giver their care was noticed, which often means more to them than the present. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod 2 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:dep 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 giver giver NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 noticed notice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl _ _ 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | for a present | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for present=Attribute | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Saying | the giver | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent giver=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **notice** | past · passive | | stories's care | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 5 | **mean** | present | the giver | more | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic | | 6 | **care** | | stories *= story* | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:17`. **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): R7-rel-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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