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title: A first meeting with a parent's new partner is often in a relaxed pl… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics
description: A first meeting with a parent's new partner is often in a relaxed place like a pizza restaurant, so there is less pressure. Who acts: first meeting, less pressure. 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
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# New partners and step-families, sentence 9

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A first meeting with a parent's new partner is often in a relaxed place like a pizza restaurant, so there is less pressure.

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**Who acts:** first meeting, less pressure · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** relaxed place

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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 (first meeting, less pressure), 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:9
# text = A first meeting with a parent's new partner is often in a relaxed place like a pizza restaurant, so there is less pressure.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl
24	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a first meeting with a parent's new partner |  |  | a relaxed place |  | like a pizza restaurant; often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | less pressure |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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 ×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/).

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