--- title: Some children have two mums, two dads, or a mum with a girlfriend or… — Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How… · tree and pragmatics description: Some children have two mums, two dads, or a mum with a girlfriend or a dad with a boyfriend; greet each grown-up the same polite way, «Hi, nice to meet you». Who acts: children. 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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 (children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:12 # text = Some children have two mums, two dads, or a mum with a girlfriend or a dad with a boyfriend; greet each grown-up the same polite way, «Hi, nice to meet you». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 mums mum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 dads dad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 girlfriend girlfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 boyfriend boyfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 greet greet VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 each each PRON DT PronType=Tot 23 obj _ _ 25 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 27 up up PART RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NN:Degree=Pos 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 34 Hi hi INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 parataxis _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | some children | two mums and two dads | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient | | 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | infinitive | | each | | | | the same polite way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 3 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | you | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | 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:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:12`. **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): 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. 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