--- title: Most families are somewhere in the middle; there is always someone w… — Comfortable families: enough, but not everything · tree and pragmatics description: Most families are somewhere in the middle; there is always someone with more and someone with less. Who acts: Most families. 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 ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Comfortable families: enough, but not…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/) / 33 # Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 33 Most families are somewhere in the middle; there is always someone with more and someone with less. **Who acts:** Most families · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** middle, someone 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 (Most families), 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:33 # text = Most families are somewhere in the middle; there is always someone with more and someone with less. # 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 ×3 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:expl 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 parataxis _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 nmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Most families | | | the middle | | somewhere *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | someone | | | | more *nmod* | 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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Comfortable families: enough, but not…, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/32/) - next →: [Comfortable families: enough, but not…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/34/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/)