Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 6
A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes; a limp, floppy one can seem unfriendly or not interested.
Who acts: good handshake, limp floppy one · What happens: be, not be, seem
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» 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 (good handshake, limp floppy one), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 handshake | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 handshake | amod |
| 3 | handshake | handshake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 firm | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 firm | cop |
| 5 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 hard | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hard | advmod |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 firm | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shakes | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 shakes | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 two | advmod |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 shakes | nummod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 three | cc |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 two | conj |
| 15 | shakes | shake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 firm | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 seem | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 18 | limp | limp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 limp | punct |
| 20 | floppy | floppy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seem | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 seem | aux |
| 23 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 firm | parataxis |
| 24 | unfriendly | unfriendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 seem | xcomp |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 interested | cc |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 interested | advmod |
| 27 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 unfriendly | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 firm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a good handshake | for two shakes; firm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | a good handshake not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | seem | can | a limp floppy one | unfriendly property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:6.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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