--- title: Formal doesn't mean long fancy words; it means clear, polite and cal… — Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teac… · tree and pragmatics description: Formal doesn't mean long fancy words; it means clear, polite and calm, with full words, a greeting like "Dear" or "Hello", and a "thank you". Who acts: Formal, coat. 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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 (Formal, coat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:4 # text = Formal doesn't mean long fancy words; it means clear, polite and calm, with full words, a greeting like "Dear" or "Hello", and a "thank you". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 fancy fancy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Hello hello INTJ UH _ 25 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:discourse 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 vocative _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Formal | long fancy words | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | coat | | | | | with full words and a greeting like Dear; clear *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **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:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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. 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