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title: Families come in many forms, and what matters is that they love each… — Screens, sleep, fairness and differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Families come in many forms, and what matters is that they love each other. Who acts: Families. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Screens, sleep, fairness and differences, sentence 15

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Families come in many forms, and what matters is that they love each other.

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**Who acts:** Families · **What happens:** come, matter, be · **To what, where:** many forms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» 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 (Families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences.lesson:15
# text = Families come in many forms, and what matters is that they love each other.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 103-screens-fairness-and-differences.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): no change
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	csubj	_	_
9	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	13	obj	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **come** | present | Families |  |  | many forms |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location |
| 2 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | families *= family* |  |  |  |  | love *property* | 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:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences.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): no change. **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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