--- title: Good listening means looking at the person, letting them finish, and… — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics description: Good listening means looking at the person, letting them finish, and then answering about what they actually said. Who acts: Good listening, Manners. A sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/3/) [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/) / [Manners and kindness](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/) / 3 # Manners and kindness, sentence 3 Good listening means looking at the person, letting them finish, and then answering about what they actually said. **Who acts:** Good listening, Manners · **What happens:** mean, look, let, finish, answer, say · **To what, where:** Manners · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Good listening, Manners), 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:3 # text = Good listening means looking at the person, letting them finish, and then answering about what they actually said. # 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 ×1 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 listening listening NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 answering answer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 16 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 obl _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 actually actually ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **mean** | present | Good listening | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **look** *not said to happen* | gerund | Good listening *not said here* | | | | | at the person | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at person=Theme | | 3 | **let** | gerund | Good listening *not said here* | Manners | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **finish** | infinitive | Manners *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | Good listening *not said here* | | | | then | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Manners | | | | | actually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:3`. **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 ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/2/) - next →: [Manners and kindness, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/)