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title: Not going away on holiday is normal, and true small stories make goo… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: Not going away on holiday is normal, and true small stories make good conversations. Who acts: going, true small stories. A sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 28

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Not going away on holiday is normal, and true small stories make good conversations.

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**Who acts:** going, true small stories · **What happens:** not go away, be, make · **To what, where:** holiday, good conversations

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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 (going, true small stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:28
# text = Not going away on holiday is normal, and true small stories make good conversations.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.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	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	conversations	conversation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go away** | gerund |  |  |  | holiday |  | away *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on holiday=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | going |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | true small stories | good conversations |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset conversation=Product |

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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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:28`.

**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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