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title: Your family is bigger than the people in your house: grandparents, a… — Gran, cousins and the whole wide family · tree and pragmatics
description: Your family is bigger than the people in your house: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and relatives by marriage called in-laws. Who acts: family. A sentence of the lesson «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 0

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Your family is bigger than the people in your house: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and relatives by marriage called in-laws.

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**Who acts:** family · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** marriage, laws · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» 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 (family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.lesson:0
# text = Your family is bigger than the people in your house: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and relatives by marriage called in-laws.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.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	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	aunts	aunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	uncles	uncle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Your family |  |  |  |  | than the people in your house; big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | marriage *not said here* |  | laws |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.lesson:0`.

**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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