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title: Giving more because you have more is good; giving quietly avoids mak… — Comfortable families: enough, but not everything · tree and pragmatics
description: Giving more because you have more is good; giving quietly avoids making others feel small. Who acts: you, Giving, others. 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 c
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# Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 42

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Giving more because you have more is good; giving quietly avoids making others feel small.

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**Who acts:** you, Giving, others · **What happens:** give, have, be, avoid, make, feel · **To what, where:** more

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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 (you, Giving, others), 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:42
# text = Giving more because you have more is good; giving quietly avoids making others feel small.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
12	avoids	avoid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **give** | gerund |  | more |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | you | more |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | Giving |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **avoid** | present | giving |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | giving *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **feel** | infinitive | others |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:42`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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