Greeting adults and teachers, sentence 0

When a grown-up says hello to you, you look at them, smile and say hello back, using their name if you know it; ignoring a greeting feels rude to the other person.

Who acts: a, you, ignoring, their · What happens: grow up, say, look, smile, say back, use · To what, where: hello, you, name, greeting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting adults and teachers» of the everyday 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 (a, you, ignoring, their), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 says	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 says	nsubj
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 a	acl
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grown	compound:prt
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hello	hello	NOUN	_	6 says	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 says	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 look	nsubj
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 smile	punct
16	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 look	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 smile	conj
19	hello	hello	NOUN	_	18 say	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 say	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 using	punct
22	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 say	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 name	nmod:poss
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 using	obj
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 know	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 using	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 feels	punct
30	ignoring	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 feels	csubj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 greeting	det
32	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ignoring	obj
33	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	parataxis
34	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 feels	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 person	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 person	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 person	amod
38	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rude	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a	hello	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hello=Topic to you=Recipient
3	look	present	you			at them = they	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
4	smile	infinitive	you not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say back speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	hello			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
6	use	gerund	you not said here	their name			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
7	know a condition, not said to happen	present	you	name			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
8	ignore	gerund		a greeting			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
9	feel	present	ignoring			rude property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	name		their = they				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers.lesson:0.

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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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