Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 2
Some people do not shake hands, for example for religious reasons; you never insist, and a smile, a nod or a hand on your heart is fine.
Who acts: people, you, smile · What happens: not shake, not insist, be · To what, where: 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 (people, you, smile), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shake | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shake | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 shake | advmod |
| 5 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shake | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 example | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 example | case |
| 9 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shake | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 reasons | case |
| 11 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reasons | amod |
| 12 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shake | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 insist | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 insist | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 insist | advmod |
| 16 | insist | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shake | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smile | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 smile | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 smile | det |
| 20 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fine | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 nod | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 nod | det |
| 23 | nod | nod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smile | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 hand | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hand | det |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smile | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 fine | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hand | nmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 fine | cop |
| 31 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shake | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shake | 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 | not shake | present · do-support | some people | hands | for example; for religious reasons | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | not insist speech: other | present | you | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a smile and a nod or a hand your heart | fine property | tree rules |
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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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