--- title: Gratitude means noticing good things and saying thank you; grateful… — Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness · tree and pragmatics description: Gratitude means noticing good things and saying thank you; grateful people tend to be happier and kinder. Who acts: Gratitude, grateful people. 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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 (Gratitude, grateful people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:17 # text = Gratitude means noticing good things and saying thank you; grateful people tend to be happier and kinder. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 034-honesty-fairness-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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Gratitude gratitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 noticing notice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 conj _ _ 8 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 grateful grateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 tend tend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 happier happy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 kinder kind ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Gratitude | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **notice** *not said to happen* | gerund | Gratitude *not said here* | good things | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Gratitude *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **tend** | present | grateful people | | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | grateful people *not said here* | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | grateful people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:17`. **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. **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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