--- title: Families come in many shapes: two mums, two dads, one parent, step-f… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: Families come in many shapes: two mums, two dads, one parent, step-families, and all of them are real families. Who acts: Families, all. 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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 (Families, all), 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:6 # text = Families come in many shapes: two mums, two dads, one parent, step-families, and all of them are real families. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 mums mum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 dads dad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come in** | present | Families | many shapes | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | all | real families | | | | | 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:6`. **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): R7-rel-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/5/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)