--- title: A step-sister who snaps "You're not my real sister!" is often upset… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: A step-sister who snaps "You're not my real sister!" is often upset about changes in her own family and taking it out on you. Who acts: step sister, You. A sentence of the lesson «New partners and step-families» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [New partners and step-families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/) / 14 # New partners and step-families, sentence 14 A step-sister who snaps "You're not my real sister!" is often upset about changes in her own family and taking it out on you. **Who acts:** step sister, You · **What happens:** snap, not be, be, take out · **To what, where:** real sister, birth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «New partners and step-families» of the adult life 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 (step sister, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:14 # text = A step-sister who snaps "You're not my real sister!" is often upset about changes in her own family and taking it out on you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 8 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 9 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **snap** | present | a step sister | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | my real sister | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | a step sister | | | | | about changes in partner's own family; often, upset *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take out** | gerund | a step sister *not said here* | birth | | | | on you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:14`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [New partners and step-families, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/13/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)