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title: Learning a family together halves the work. — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics
description: Learning a family together halves the work. Who acts: Learning. A sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 11

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Learning a family together halves the work.

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**Who acts:** Learning · **What happens:** learn, halve · **To what, where:** family, work

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» of the english 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 (Learning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:11
# text = Learning a family together halves the work.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	halves	halve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **learn** | gerund |  | a family |  |  |  | together *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Topic |
| 2 | **halve** | present | Learning | the work |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent work=Patient |

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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:english:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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