--- title: Some children have two mums or two dads because their parents are a… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: Some children have two mums or two dads because their parents are a same-sex couple, and that family is just as real as any other. Who acts: children, parents, family. 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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 (children, parents, family), 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:18 # text = Some children have two mums or two dads because their parents are a same-sex couple, and that family is just as real as any other. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 mums mum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 dads dad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 sex sex NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 as as ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | some children | two mums or two dads | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | mum's parents | a sex couple | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | that family | | | | | as any other; real *property* | tree rules | 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:18`. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/17/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)