--- title: Blended families take time to work out, so step-brothers and step-si… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics description: Blended families take time to work out, so step-brothers and step-sisters find things they all enjoy and give each other space. Who acts: Blended families, step brothers, things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blended families, step brothers, things), 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:9 # text = Blended families take time to work out, so step-brothers and step-sisters find things they all enjoy and give each other space. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Blended blend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 10 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 21 enjoy enjoy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blend** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **take** | present | Blended families | | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **work out** | to-infinitive | Blended families *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | present | step brothers and step sisters | things | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 5 | **enjoy** | present | things *= thing* | things *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 6 | **give** | present | step brothers and step sisters *not said here* | each other space | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme | 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. **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:9`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Family changes and grief, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/8/) - next →: [Family changes and grief, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/)