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title: Dad's mother is Mum's mother-in-law, a relative by marriage, and in-… — Gran, cousins and the whole wide family · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad's mother is Mum's mother-in-law, a relative by marriage, and in-laws do not always find long visits easy. Who acts: mother, in laws. 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 pragmatics of
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# Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 8

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Dad's mother is Mum's mother-in-law, a relative by marriage, and in-laws do not always find long visits easy.

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**Who acts:** mother, in laws · **What happens:** be, not find · **To what, where:** mother, law, long visits

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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 (mother, in laws), 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:8
# text = Dad's mother is Mum's mother-in-law, a relative by marriage, and in-laws do not always find long visits easy.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	relative	relative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	appos	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:amod
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Dad's mother | Mum's mother |  | law |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **find** | present · do-support | in laws | long visits |  |  |  | always, easy *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Topic |

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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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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