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title: Moving house is hard, and a welcome, like a card or some biscuits, h… — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics
description: Moving house is hard, and a welcome, like a card or some biscuits, helps a new family feel at home. Who acts: Moving, welcome, new family. A sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 6

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Moving house is hard, and a welcome, like a card or some biscuits, helps a new family feel at home.

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**Who acts:** Moving, welcome, new family · **What happens:** move, be, help, feel · **To what, where:** house, home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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 (Moving, welcome, new family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people.lesson:6
# text = Moving house is hard, and a welcome, like a card or some biscuits, helps a new family feel at home.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 123-neighbours-and-new-people.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
1	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **move** | gerund |  | house |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Moving |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | present | a welcome like a card or some biscuits |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | infinitive | a new family |  |  | home |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location |

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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): R6-punct-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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