---
title: A family is a team: when everyone helps a little, by tidying, settin… — Gratitude, helping at home and privacy · tree and pragmatics
description: A family is a team: when everyone helps a little, by tidying, setting the table or folding laundry, the work is quicker and nobody is worn out. Who acts: family, everyone, work. A sentence of the lesson «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Gratitude, helping at home and privacy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/) / 1

# Gratitude, helping at home and privacy, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A family is a team: when everyone helps a little, by tidying, setting the table or folding laundry, the work is quicker and nobody is worn out.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** family, everyone, work · **What happens:** be, help, tidy, set, wear out · **To what, where:** team, little, table, nobody

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» 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 (family, everyone, work), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.lesson:1
# text = A family is a team: when everyone helps a little, by tidying, setting the table or folding laundry, the work is quicker and nobody is worn out.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tidying	tidy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	folding	folding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	laundry	laundry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a family | a team |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | everyone | a little |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **tidy** | gerund | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | the table or folding laundry |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient table=Result |
| 5 | **is** | present | the work |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **wear out** | present · passive |  | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy.lesson:1`.

**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. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Gratitude, helping at home and privacy, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/0/)
- next →: [Gratitude, helping at home and privacy, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/)

