--- title: Being asked to be part of a parent's wedding shows that you are an i… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: Being asked to be part of a parent's wedding shows that you are an important part of the new family. Who acts: you, parent. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # New partners and step-families, sentence 16 Being asked to be part of a parent's wedding shows that you are an important part of the new family. **Who acts:** you, parent · **What happens:** ask, be, show, wed · **To what, where:** part, important part · **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 (you, parent), 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:16 # text = Being asked to be part of a parent's wedding shows that you are an important part of the new family. # 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 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 csubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» | | 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | part | | | | of a parent's wedding | tree rules | | 3 | **show** | present | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | you | a important part | | | | of the new family | tree rules | | 5 | **wed** | | a parent | | | | | | nom wedding «event transitive»: 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](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:16`. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/15/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)