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title: Many disabilities are invisible, so believe someone who says they ne… — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many disabilities are invisible, so believe someone who says they need a snack or a rest. Who acts: Many disabilities, people. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 20

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Many disabilities are invisible, so believe someone who says they need a snack or a rest.

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**Who acts:** Many disabilities, people · **What happens:** be, believe, say, need · **To what, where:** someone, snack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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 (Many disabilities, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:20
# text = Many disabilities are invisible, so believe someone who says they need a snack or a rest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 227-older-people-and-disabilities.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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	disabilities	disability	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	believe	believe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Many disabilities |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **need** | present | people | a snack or a rest |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot snack=Theme |

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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:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:20`.

**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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