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title: «Is it always like this?» «Nah, it's quiet today.» Ravi in Leicester… — Every family is different · tree and pragmatics
description: «Is it always like this?» «Nah, it's quiet today.» Ravi in Leicester counts on his fingers: Mum, Dad, Grandad, an uncle, an aunt, three cousins and him make nine, then his gran and baby sister make eleven, «twelve if you count the fish». Who acts: bare, Ravi, gran, you. A sentence of the lesson «Eve
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# Every family is different, sentence 8

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«Is it always like this?» «Nah, it's quiet today.» Ravi in Leicester counts on his fingers: Mum, Dad, Grandad, an uncle, an aunt, three cousins and him make nine, then his gran and baby sister make eleven, «twelve if you count the fish».

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**Who acts:** bare, Ravi, gran, you · **What happens:** be, count, make · **To what, where:** nine, eleven, fish · **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 (bare, Ravi, gran, 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:8
# text = «Is it always like this?» «Nah, it's quiet today.» Ravi in Leicester counts on his fingers: Mum, Dad, Grandad, an uncle, an aunt, three cousins and him make nine, then his gran and baby sister make eleven, «twelve if you count the fish».
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Nah	Nah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
15	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Ravi	Ravi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Leicester	Leicester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
43	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	obj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
51	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
52	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	obj	_	_
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	«	«	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	appos	_	_
56	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=61:det
60	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=61:compound
61	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bare |  |  |  |  | like this; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bare |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | present | Ravi in Leicester |  |  |  |  | on Ravi's fingers and Mum and Dad and Grandad and three cousins | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on finger=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | Ravi | nine |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nine=Product |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive | Ravi's gran and baby sister | eleven |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eleven=Product |
| 6 | **count** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | the fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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/).

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