Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 8
A good handshake is firm but not crushing and lasts about two or three shakes.
Who acts: good handshake · What happens: be, not crush, last · To what, where: two shakes
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), 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 crushing | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 crushing | advmod |
| 8 | crushing | crush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 firm | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lasts | cc |
| 10 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 firm | conj |
| 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 | 10 lasts | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 firm | 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 | is | present | a good handshake | firm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not crush | gerund | a good handshake not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | last | present | a good handshake not said here | two shakes | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:8.
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 ×1, R5-strong ×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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