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title: Putting the other person first, as in "Sam and I", is a polite habit. — Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting the other person first, as in "Sam and I", is a polite habit. Who acts: Putting. A sentence of the lesson «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, sentence 12

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Putting the other person first, as in "Sam and I", is a polite habit.

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**Who acts:** Putting · **What happens:** put, be · **To what, where:** other person, polite habit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» of the language 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 (Putting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:12
# text = Putting the other person first, as in "Sam and I", is a polite habit.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	conj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | gerund |  |  | the other person |  |  | as Sam; first *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent person=Goal |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Putting | a polite habit |  |  |  |  | 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:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:12`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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