Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 15
"Kia ora" is a Maori greeting used in New Zealand that means hello and good health.
Who acts: Kia, Maori greeting · What happens: be, use, mean · To what, where: Maori greeting, New Zealand, hello
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 (Kia, Maori greeting), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kia | punct |
| 2 | Kia | Kia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 greeting | nsubj |
| 3 | ora | ora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kia | flat |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ora | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 greeting | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 greeting | det |
| 7 | Maori | maori | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 greeting | compound |
| 8 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 greeting | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Zealand | case |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 12 Zealand | flat |
| 12 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 used | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 greeting | acl:relcl |
| 15 | hello | hello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 health | cc |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 health | amod |
| 18 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hello | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 greeting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kia | a Maori greeting | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | a Maori greeting not said here | New Zealand | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | a Maori greeting | hello and good health | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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