--- title: Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spre… — Gran, cousins and the whole wide family · tree and pragmatics description: Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals. Who acts: Cousins, families. 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 a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/12/) [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/) / [Gran, cousins and the whole wide family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/) / 12 # Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 12 Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals. **Who acts:** Cousins, families · **What happens:** be, spread out, meet · **To what, where:** children, weddings 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 (Cousins, families), 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:12 # text = Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 aunts aunt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 uncles uncle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 weddings wedding NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 funerals funeral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Cousins | the children | | | | of your aunts and uncles | tree rules | | 2 | **spread out** | present | families | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **meet** | present | some cousins | | | weddings and funerals | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.lesson:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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: [Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/11/) - next →: [Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/)