Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 1

When your hands are dirty or you have a cold, you explain and wave or smile instead, because nobody wants a sticky hand and germs spread through hands.

Who acts: hands, you, nobody, germs · What happens: be, have, explain, wave, smile, want · To what, where: cold, sticky hand, hands

This is a sentence of the lesson «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» 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 (hands, you, nobody, germs), 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	5 dirty	advmod
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dirty	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dirty	cop
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 explain	advcl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 have	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dirty	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cold	det
10	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 explain	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 explain	nsubj
13	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wave	cc
15	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 explain	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 smile	cc
17	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wave	conj
18	instead	instead	ADV	_	17 smile	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wants	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 wants	mark
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 wants	nsubj
22	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 smile	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hand	det
24	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hand	amod
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wants	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spread	cc
27	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spread	nsubj
28	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wants	conj
29	through	through	ADP	_	30 hands	case
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spread	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 explain	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	your hands			dirty property	tree rules
2	have	present	you	a cold			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient
3	explain speech: assert	present	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wave	present	you not said here				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	smile	infinitive	you not said here			instead property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	want	present	nobody	a sticky hand			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme
7	spread	present	germs		hands		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hand=Location

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:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.lesson:1.

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): R8-pos-agree ×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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