--- title: It's normal to want something different, and normal for a parent to… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics description: It's normal to want something different, and normal for a parent to feel sad when they can't give more; neither is anyone's fault. Who acts: biscuits, neither. 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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 (biscuits, neither), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:33 # text = It's normal to want something different, and normal for a parent to feel sad when they can't give more; neither is anyone's fault. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ _ 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 csubj _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 16 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 neither neither PRON DT PronType=Neg 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **want** | to-infinitive | | something | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | | 3 | **be** | | | a parent | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | | a parent *not said here* | | | | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **give** | can | biscuits *= biscuit* | more | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | neither | anyone's fault | | | | | 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:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:33`. **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 ×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. 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