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description: Rich is a big word.» Rich and poor aren't two boxes; families are spread out all along the line, and having enough plus a bit extra is a kind of luck. Who acts: Rich, having. A sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school w
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# Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 24

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Rich is a big word.» Rich and poor aren't two boxes; families are spread out all along the line, and having enough plus a bit extra is a kind of luck.

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**Who acts:** Rich, having · **What happens:** be, not be, spread out, have · **To what, where:** big word, two boxes, families, line, kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rich, having), 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:24
# text = Rich is a big word.» Rich and poor aren't two boxes; families are spread out all along the line, and having enough plus a bit extra is a kind of luck.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Rich	Rich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	along	along	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	csubj	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det
30	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	extra	extra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 a** | present | Rich | a big word and a kind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Rich | two boxes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spread out** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | families |  | the line |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme along line=Destination |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | having | a kind |  |  |  | of luck | 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:24`.

**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 ×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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