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title: Older people's stories often hold family history that you can only l… — Rude words at the table · tree and pragmatics
description: Older people's stories often hold family history that you can only learn from them. Who acts: stories, you. A sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rude words at the table, sentence 26

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Older people's stories often hold family history that you can only learn from them.

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**Who acts:** stories, you · **What happens:** hold, learn · **To what, where:** family history

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» 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 (stories, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:26
# text = Older people's stories often hold family history that you can only learn from them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.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	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hold** | present | Older people's stories | family history |  |  |  | often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | can | you | family history |  |  |  | from stories *= story* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent that=Topic from they=Source |

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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:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:26`.

**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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