Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 14
In France, Italy and Spain adults often greet with cheek kisses, but a child may follow their lead or simply wave or shake hands.
Who acts: adults, child · What happens: greet, follow, wave, shake · To what, where: France, lead, 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 (adults, child), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 France | case |
| 2 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 greet | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Italy | punct |
| 4 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 France | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Spain | cc |
| 6 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Italy | conj |
| 7 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 greet | nsubj |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 greet | advmod |
| 9 | greet | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 kisses | case |
| 11 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kisses | compound |
| 12 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 greet | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 follow | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 follow | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 follow | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 follow | aux |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 greet | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lead | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 follow | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 wave | cc |
| 22 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 23 wave | advmod |
| 23 | wave | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 follow | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 shake | cc |
| 25 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wave | conj |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shake | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 greet | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | present | adults | France and Italy and Spain | with cheek kisses; often property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | follow | may | a child | adults's lead | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wave | infinitive | a child not said here | simply property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shake | infinitive | a child not said here | hands | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
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:14.
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): R2-punct-next ×1. 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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