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title: Independence grows step by step: you show your parents you can do so… — Responsibility, independence and curiosity · tree and pragmatics
description: Independence grows step by step: you show your parents you can do something safely, like walking a route with them, and then they let you do it alone. Who acts: Independence, you, parents, step. A sentence of the lesson «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» of the everyday course of Mova's pr
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# Responsibility, independence and curiosity, sentence 1

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Independence grows step by step: you show your parents you can do something safely, like walking a route with them, and then they let you do it alone.

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**Who acts:** Independence, you, parents, step · **What happens:** grow, show, do, walk, let, step · **To what, where:** step, parents, something, route, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» of the everyday 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 (Independence, you, parents, step), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:1
# text = Independence grows step by step: you show your parents you can do something safely, like walking a route with them, and then they let you do it alone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.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 ×2
1	Independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	iobj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
15	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Independence | step by step |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | present | you |  | your parents |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | can | you | something |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 4 | **walk** | gerund | you *not said here* | a route |  |  |  | with parents *= parent* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme route=Trajectory |
| 5 | **let** | present | parents *= parent* | you |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | route |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 7 | **step** |  | step |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: by=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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**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 ×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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