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title: Families come in many shapes: two mums, two dads, one parent or gran… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Families come in many shapes: two mums, two dads, one parent or grandparents, and all deserve respect. Who acts: Families. A sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 17

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Families come in many shapes: two mums, two dads, one parent or grandparents, and all deserve respect.

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**Who acts:** Families · **What happens:** come, deserve · **To what, where:** many shapes, respect

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting 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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:17
# text = Families come in many shapes: two mums, two dads, one parent or grandparents, and all deserve respect.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 226-compliments-and-respecting-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): R7-rel-agree ×2
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	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	mums	mum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	dads	dad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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 shapes |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shape=Location |
| 2 | **deserve** | present | Families *not said here* | respect |  |  |  | all *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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:17`.

**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 ×2. **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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