--- title: And in Vancouver, when Hiroshi's mom asks if he wants a brother or s… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics description: And in Vancouver, when Hiroshi's mom asks if he wants a brother or sister, he says, «Nah, I'd have to share my Switch.» Then at bedtime: «Would they be younger?» Mixed feelings are normal, and the decision is the parents'. Who acts: mom, child, brothers, Mixed feelings. 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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 (mom, child, brothers, Mixed feelings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:28 # text = And in Vancouver, when Hiroshi's mom asks if he wants a brother or sister, he says, «Nah, I'd have to share my Switch.» Then at bedtime: «Would they be younger?» Mixed feelings are normal, and the decision is the parents'. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Vancouver Vancouver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 Hiroshi Hiroshi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 mom mom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 22 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 26 discourse _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 Switch switch NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 33 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 bedtime bedtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 36 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 38 Would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 conj _ _ 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 44 Mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=45:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 45 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 46 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 47 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=47:punct 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 52 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 conj _ _ 55 ' 's PART POS _ 54 case _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Hiroshi's mom | | | Vancouver | | at bedtime | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | child | a brother or sister | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | child | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | would | child | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **share** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | my Switch | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | would | brothers *= brother* | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **mix** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **is** | present | Mixed feelings | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | present | the decision | | | | | 's the parents | 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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:28`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The only child: a quiet house, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/27/) - next →: [The only child: a quiet house, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/)