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title: In Reading, Elsie's mum is a nurse and her dad is a teacher. — Comfortable families: enough, but not everything · tree and pragmatics
description: In Reading, Elsie's mum is a nurse and her dad is a teacher. Who acts: mum, dad. A sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 0

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In Reading, Elsie's mum is a nurse and her dad is a teacher.

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**Who acts:** mum, dad · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** nurse, Reading, teacher

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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 (mum, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:0
# text = In Reading, Elsie's mum is a nurse and her dad is a teacher.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Reading	Reading	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | present | Elsie's mum | a nurse and a teacher |  | Reading |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Elsie's dad | a teacher |  |  |  |  | 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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:0`.

**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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