--- title: In a school lunch line in Texas, Maya holds the door for the boy beh… — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics description: In a school lunch line in Texas, Maya holds the door for the boy behind her; he says thank you and smiles, and two tiny acts of kindness leave both of them a little happier. Who acts: Maya, listening, two tiny acts, kindness. 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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 (Maya, listening, two tiny acts, kindness), 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:4 # text = In a school lunch line in Texas, Maya holds the door for the boy behind her; he says thank you and smiles, and two tiny acts of kindness leave both of them a little happier. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 4 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 Maya Maya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 behind behind ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 21 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:parataxis 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 smiles smile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 acts act NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 33 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 32 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 38 happier happy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 xcomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | Maya | the door | | a school lunch line in Texas | | for Maya's boy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent door=Theme in line=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | listening | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **smile** | present | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **leave** | present | two tiny acts of kindness | both | | | | happy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme | | 6 | **act** | | kindness | | | | | | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Manners and kindness, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/3/) - next →: [Manners and kindness, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/)