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title: Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and… — Gran, cousins and the whole wide family · tree and pragmatics
description: Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and they can be fun and stressful at the same time. Who acts: Big family gatherings, relatives, gatherings. A sentence of the lesson «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 9

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Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and they can be fun and stressful at the same time.

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**Who acts:** Big family gatherings, relatives, gatherings · **What happens:** bring together, meet, be · **To what, where:** relatives

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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 (Big family gatherings, relatives, gatherings), 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:9
# text = Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and they can be fun and stressful at the same time.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gatherings	gathering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stressful	stressful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring together** | present | Big family gatherings | relatives |  |  |  | together *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent relative=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | present | relatives |  |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | can | gatherings *= gathering* |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | gatherings *= gathering* *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |

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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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**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, 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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