--- title: Studies suggest that people who often give thanks tend to feel happi… — Life is precious: wonder and gratitude · tree and pragmatics description: Studies suggest that people who often give thanks tend to feel happier. Who acts: Studies, people. A sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Life is precious: wonder and gratitude](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/) / 7 # Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, sentence 7 Studies suggest that people who often give thanks tend to feel happier. **Who acts:** Studies, people · **What happens:** suggest, give, tend, feel · **To what, where:** thanks · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» of the religion ethics 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 (Studies, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:7 # text = Studies suggest that people who often give thanks tend to feel happier. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.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): no change 1 Studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 suggest suggest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 thanks thanks NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 7 obj _ _ 9 tend tend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 happier happy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 xcomp _ _ 13 . . 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 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Studies | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** | present | people | thanks | | | | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | | 3 | **tend** | present | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | happy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/6/) - next →: [Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/)