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title: Lots of families can't afford holidays, and you don't have to explai… — Every family is different · tree and pragmatics
description: Lots of families can't afford holidays, and you don't have to explain your family's money to anyone. Who acts: Lots, you. 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 32

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Lots of families can't afford holidays, and you don't have to explain your family's money to anyone.

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**Who acts:** Lots, you · **What happens:** not afford, not have, explain · **To what, where:** holidays, money, anyone

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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 (Lots, you), 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:32
# text = Lots of families can't afford holidays, and you don't have to explain your family's money to anyone.
# 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	Lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **afford** | can | Lots of families | holidays |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your family's money | anyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Topic to anyone=Recipient |

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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:32`.

**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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