--- title: When Dad says "There's someone I'd like you to meet", he means he ha… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: When Dad says "There's someone I'd like you to meet", he means he has a new partner he cares about and wants you to know. Who acts: Dad, someone, you. 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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 (Dad, someone, you), 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:8 # text = When Dad says "There's someone I'd like you to meet", he means he has a new partner he cares about and wants you to know. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 has have 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 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 cares care VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | someone | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **like** *in a quote* | would | Dad | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **meet** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | dad | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** | present | dad | a new partner | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient | | 7 | **care** | present | dad | a new partner *not said here* | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **want** | present | dad *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:8`. **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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/7/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)