Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world, sentence 20
Customs differ between countries, and learning them before you visit avoids upsetting people.
Who acts: Customs, you, learning · What happens: differ, learn, visit, avoid · To what, where: countries, upsetting people
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 (Customs, you, learning), 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 | Customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 differ | nsubj |
| 2 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 countries | case |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 differ | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 learning | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 avoids | cc |
| 7 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 avoids | csubj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 learning | obj |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 visit | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 visit | nsubj |
| 11 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 learning | advcl |
| 12 | avoids | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 differ | conj |
| 13 | upsetting | upsetting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 avoids | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | present | Customs | between countries | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | learn | gerund | countries = country | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||||
| 3 | visit | present | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | avoid | present | learning | upsetting people | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=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:20.
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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