--- title: If they marry or move in, they become a step-parent, their children… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: If they marry or move in, they become a step-parent, their children become step-brothers and step-sisters, and a baby they have together is a half-brother or half-sister. Who acts: mum, children, baby. 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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 (mum, children, baby), 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:5 # text = If they marry or move in, they become a step-parent, their children become step-brothers and step-sisters, and a baby they have together is a half-brother or half-sister. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 marry marry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 in in ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 together together ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 36 compound _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 40 compound _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **marry** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | mum | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **move in** | present | mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **become** | present | mum | a step parent | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **become** | present | mum's children | step brothers and step sisters | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **have** | present | mum | a baby *not said here* | | | | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | a baby | a half brother or half sister | | | | | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/4/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)