--- title: In English-speaking countries people often say «bless you» after a s… — Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather · tree and pragmatics description: In English-speaking countries people often say «bless you» after a sneeze, and the person says «thank you». Who acts: people, person. 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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 (people, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:7 # text = In English-speaking countries people often say «bless you» after a sneeze, and the person says «thank you». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 13 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sneeze sneeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | speaking countries | | | after a sneeze | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **bless** *in a quote* | infinitive | | you | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the person | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:7`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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. 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