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title: When the class makes Mother's Day cards, his teacher quietly says he… — Every family is different · tree and pragmatics
description: When the class makes Mother's Day cards, his teacher quietly says he can make one for anyone he likes. Who acts: class, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Every family is different» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Every family is different, sentence 12

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When the class makes Mother's Day cards, his teacher quietly says he can make one for anyone he likes.

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**Who acts:** class, teacher · **What happens:** make, say, like · **To what, where:** Day cards, Mother, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Every family is different» 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 (class, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:486-every-family-is-different.lesson:12
# text = When the class makes Mother's Day cards, his teacher quietly says he can make one for anyone he likes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 486-every-family-is-different.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **make** | present | the class | Day cards | Mother |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset mother=Beneficiary card=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | class's teacher |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | can | teacher | one |  |  |  | for anyone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Product for anyone=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **like** | present | teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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:486-every-family-is-different.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): 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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