Greeting friends and relatives, sentence 7
A special handshake is fun with a close friend, but other people are greeted in an ordinary way.
Who acts: special handshake · What happens: be, greet · To what, where: other people, ordinary way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting friends and relatives» 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 (special handshake), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 handshake | det |
| 2 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 handshake | amod |
| 3 | handshake | handshake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fun | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | cop |
| 5 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 friend | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friend | det |
| 8 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 friend | amod |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fun | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 greeted | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 greeted | cc |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 greeted | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 greeted | aux:pass |
| 15 | greeted | greet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fun | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 greeted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a special handshake | with a close friend; fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | present · passive | other people | a ordinary way | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, 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:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.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.
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