Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 1

A good handshake is firm but not hard, for about two or three shakes: a floppy hand seems unfriendly and a crushing one hurts.

Who acts: good handshake, floppy hand, crushing one · What happens: be, not be, seem, crush, hurt

This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners» 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, floppy hand, crushing 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	_	20 seems	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hand	det
18	floppy	floppy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hand	amod
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seems	nsubj
20	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 firm	parataxis
21	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seems	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hurts	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	crushing	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hurts	nsubj
26	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 seems	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 firm	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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	present	a floppy hand	unfriendly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	crush	gerund			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	hurt	present	a crushing one		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:1.

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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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