--- title: A step-mum who says "I'm not trying to replace your mum" means she w… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: A step-mum who says "I'm not trying to replace your mum" means she wants a different kind of relationship with you, not to take your mum's place. Who acts: step mum, up. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (step mum, up), 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:17 # text = A step-mum who says "I'm not trying to replace your mum" means she wants a different kind of relationship with you, not to take your mum's place. # 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): R5-strong ×1 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 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 replace replace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 relationship relationship NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a step mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **try** *in a quote* | present · progressive | a step mum *= mum* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **replace** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | a step mum *= mum* *not said here* | your mum | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mum=Co-Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | a step mum | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **want** | present | up | a different kind of relationship with you | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme | | 6 | **not** **take** | to-infinitive | | your mum's place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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: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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [New partners and step-families, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/16/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)