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title: Grandparents' stories about the old days are family history that onl… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandparents' stories about the old days are family history that only they can tell, so you listen and ask questions. Who acts: stories, you. A sentence of the lesson «Family changes and grief» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Family changes and grief, sentence 6

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Grandparents' stories about the old days are family history that only they can tell, so you listen and ask questions.

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**Who acts:** stories, you · **What happens:** be, tell, listen, ask · **To what, where:** family history, questions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family changes and grief» 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 (stories, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:6
# text = Grandparents' stories about the old days are family history that only they can tell, so you listen and ask questions.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 214-family-changes-and-grief.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
21	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | Grandparents's stories about the old days | family history |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | stories *= story* | family history |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 3 | **listen** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |

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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:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:6`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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