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title: Manners are small habits that show other people you respect them: sa… — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: Manners are small habits that show other people you respect them: saying please and thank you, waiting for your turn, saying sorry and listening without interrupting. Who acts: Manners, small habits, you. A sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school
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# Manners and kindness, sentence 0

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Manners are small habits that show other people you respect them: saying please and thank you, waiting for your turn, saying sorry and listening without interrupting.

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**Who acts:** Manners, small habits, you · **What happens:** be, show, respect, say, thank, wait · **To what, where:** small habits, other people, people, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (Manners, small habits, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:0
# text = Manners are small habits that show other people you respect them: saying please and thank you, waiting for your turn, saying sorry and listening without interrupting.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 051-manners-and-kindness.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 ×3
1	Manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	respect	respect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
14	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl
25	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
28	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Manners | small habits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | small habits |  | other people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 3 | **respect** | present | you | people |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | small habits *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | small habits *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **wait** | gerund | small habits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your turn | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: apologize* | gerund | small habits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **listen** | gerund | small habits *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **interrupt** | gerund | small habits *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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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