--- title: Every family speaks a bit differently, and asking what a word means… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics description: Every family speaks a bit differently, and asking what a word means is part of being friends. Who acts: family, word, asking. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Sleepovers and inside jokes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/) / 38 # Sleepovers and inside jokes, sentence 38 Every family speaks a bit differently, and asking what a word means is part of being friends. **Who acts:** family, word, asking · **What happens:** speak, ask, mean, be · **To what, where:** part, friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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 (family, word, asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:38 # text = Every family speaks a bit differently, and asking what a word means is part of being friends. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 differently differently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=DET:WDT:PronType=Int 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 16 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 18 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | every family | | | | | differently *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | a word | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | asking | part | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | gerund | | friends | | | | | tree rules | 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:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:38`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sleepovers and inside jokes, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/37/) - next →: [Sleepovers and inside jokes, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/39/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/)