When you want what others have, sentence 17

Saying thank you for a present tells the giver their care was noticed, which often means more to them than the present.

Who acts: Saying, giver, stories · What happens: say, thank, tell, notice, mean, care · To what, where: you, giver, care, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» 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 (Saying, giver, stories), 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	Saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 tells	csubj
2	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Saying	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 thank	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 present	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 present	det
6	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thank	obl
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giver	det
9	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tells	obj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 care	nmod:poss
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 noticed	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 noticed	aux:pass
13	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tells	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 means	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 means	advmod
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 giver	acl
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 means	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 more	obl
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 present	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 present	det
23	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 more	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank	present			you	for a present	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for present=Attribute
3	tell speech: assert	present	Saying	the giver			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent giver=Recipient clause=Topic
4	notice	past · passive		stories's care			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	mean	present	the giver	more		often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic
6	care		stories = story				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:17.

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 ×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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