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title: "We're not close" often means family members do not get on or rarely… — Soft words for hard things: relations and family · tree and pragmatics
description: "We're not close" often means family members do not get on or rarely speak. Who acts: We, family members. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 11

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"We're not close" often means family members do not get on or rarely speak.

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**Who acts:** We, family members · **What happens:** not be, mean, not get on, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» of the euphemisms 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 (We, family members), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:013-relations-and-family.lesson:11
# text = "We're not close" often means family members do not get on or rarely speak.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 013-relations-and-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | We |  |  |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **get on** | present · do-support | family members |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | family members *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:euphemisms:013-relations-and-family.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 ×2. **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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