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title: Families don't owe the street their news first; when a baby arrives,… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics
description: Families don't owe the street their news first; when a baby arrives, the kind reply is «congratulations». Who acts: Families, baby, kind reply. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 15

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Families don't owe the street their news first; when a baby arrives, the kind reply is «congratulations».

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**Who acts:** Families, baby, kind reply · **What happens:** not owe, arrive, be · **To what, where:** news, street, congratulations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» 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 (Families, baby, kind reply), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:15
# text = Families don't owe the street their news first; when a baby arrives, the kind reply is «congratulations».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	owe	owe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	congratulations	congratulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **owe** | present · do-support | Families | Families's news | the street |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | present | a baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the kind reply | congratulations |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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