--- title: Saying thank you for a gift matters even when the gift is not quite… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics description: Saying thank you for a gift matters even when the gift is not quite right. Who acts: Saying, gift. A sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/29/) [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/) / [Gift cards and birthday money: making…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/) / 29 # Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 29 Saying thank you for a gift matters even when the gift is not quite right. **Who acts:** Saying, gift · **What happens:** say, thank, matter, not be · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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 (Saying, gift), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:29 # text = Saying thank you for a gift matters even when the gift is not quite right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.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 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 thank thank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 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 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 quite quite ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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* | infinitive | | | you | | | for a gift | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for gift=Attribute | | 3 | **matter** | present | Saying | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | the gift | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | 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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:29`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/28/) - next →: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/)