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description: It is not: your sister's good mark does not lower yours, and your cousin's holiday does not shorten your summer — call it boring, and you only miss his happy stories. Who acts: thing, holiday, you, sister. A sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» of the everyday course of Mova's pri
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# When you want what others have, sentence 11

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It is not: your sister's good mark does not lower yours, and your cousin's holiday does not shorten your summer — call it boring, and you only miss his happy stories.

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**Who acts:** thing, holiday, you, sister · **What happens:** not be, not shorten, call, miss, mark · **To what, where:** thing, happy stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» 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 (thing, holiday, you, sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:11
# text = It is not: your sister's good mark does not lower yours, and your cousin's holiday does not shorten your summer — call it boring, and you only miss his happy stories.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	lower	lower	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	shorten	shorten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present · do-support | thing |  |  |  |  | lower *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **shorten** | present · do-support | your cousin's holiday |  |  |  | summer |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive |  | thing |  |  |  | boring *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 4 | **miss** | present | you | holiday's happy stories |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 5 | **mark** |  | your sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition 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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**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:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:11`.

**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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