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title: A handshake, or a smile and "bonjour", is always fine if you are not… — Hello and goodbye: greetings · tree and pragmatics
description: A handshake, or a smile and "bonjour", is always fine if you are not sure. Who acts: handshake, you. A sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: greetings» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hello and goodbye: greetings, sentence 13

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A handshake, or a smile and "bonjour", is always fine if you are not sure.

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**Who acts:** handshake, you · **What happens:** be, not be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: greetings» of the french 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 (handshake, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:004-hello-and-goodbye-greetings.lesson:13
# text = A handshake, or a smile and "bonjour", is always fine if you are not sure.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 004-hello-and-goodbye-greetings.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handshake	handshake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bonjour	bonjour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a handshake or a smile and bonjour |  |  |  |  | always, fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | 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:french:004-hello-and-goodbye-greetings.lesson:13`.

**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/).

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