--- title: Mixing two families takes time, and it is normal to find it hard at… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: Mixing two families takes time, and it is normal to find it hard at first. Who acts: Mixing. 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # New partners and step-families, sentence 7 Mixing two families takes time, and it is normal to find it hard at first. **Who acts:** Mixing · **What happens:** mix, take, be, find · **To what, where:** two families, baby 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 (Mixing), 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:7 # text = Mixing two families takes time, and it is normal to find it hard at first. # 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 Mixing mix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 expl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 csubj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **mix** | gerund | | two families | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | | 2 | **take** | present | Mixing | | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Mixing *not said here* | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | | baby | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:7`. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/6/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)