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title: If someone asks about your adoption or foster care, you share only w… — Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a… · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone asks about your adoption or foster care, you share only what you want to share; your story is yours to tell or keep. Who acts: someone, you, story, your. A sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself onl
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# Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 11

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If someone asks about your adoption or foster care, you share only what you want to share; your story is yours to tell or keep.

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**Who acts:** someone, you, story, your · **What happens:** ask, share, want, be, tell, keep · **To what, where:** yours · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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 (someone, you, story, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:11
# text = If someone asks about your adoption or foster care, you share only what you want to share; your story is yours to tell or keep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | someone |  |  |  |  | about your adoption or foster care | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about adoption=Topic |
| 2 | **share** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **share** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | your story | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **keep** | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **adopt** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom adoption «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): 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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