--- title: They matter because every person has feelings: a kind word makes som… — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics description: They matter because every person has feelings: a kind word makes someone feel noticed, while being ignored, pushed or interrupted makes them feel unimportant. Who acts: Manners, person, kind word, someone. 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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 (Manners, person, kind word, someone), 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:1 # text = They matter because every person has feelings: a kind word makes someone feel noticed, while being ignored, pushed or interrupted makes them feel unimportant. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 14 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 noticed notice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 ignored ignore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 interrupted interrupt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 24 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 unimportant unimportant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present | Manners | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | present | every person | feelings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | a kind word | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **notice** | participle | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **ignore** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP» | | 7 | **push** | participle | | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **interrupt** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **make** | present | a kind word *not said here* | Manners | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **feel** | infinitive | Manners *not said here* | | | | | unimportant *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:051-manners-and-kindness.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Manners and kindness, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/0/) - next →: [Manners and kindness, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/)