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title: Only children often invent games, voices and imaginary siblings; thi… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics
description: Only children often invent games, voices and imaginary siblings; this is common and healthy. Who acts: children, this. A sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The only child: a quiet house, sentence 33

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Only children often invent games, voices and imaginary siblings; this is common and healthy.

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**Who acts:** children, this · **What happens:** invent, be · **To what, where:** games

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» 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 (children, this), 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:33
# text = Only children often invent games, voices and imaginary siblings; this is common and healthy.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	invent	invent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	siblings	sibling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **invent** | present | children | games and voices and imaginary siblings |  |  |  | often *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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