--- title: Older children in big families often help a lot, but they still need… — Every family is different · tree and pragmatics description: Older children in big families often help a lot, but they still need breakfast, sleep and time for themselves; if it gets too much, tell a parent or a teacher. Who acts: Older children, family, child. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Older children, family, child), 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:29 # text = Older children in big families often help a lot, but they still need breakfast, sleep and time for themselves; if it gets too much, tell a parent or a teacher. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | Older children in big families | a lot | | | | often *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Beneficiary | | 2 | **need** | present | family | breakfast and sleep and time for family | | | still | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breakfast=Theme | | 3 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | child | | | | | much *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | a parent or a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | 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:486-every-family-is-different.lesson:29`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Every family is different, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/28/) - next →: [Every family is different, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/)