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title: Every family set-up has good bits and hard bits; kids from big and s… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics
description: Every family set-up has good bits and hard bits; kids from big and small families often envy each other. Who acts: family set up, kids. 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 34

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Every family set-up has good bits and hard bits; kids from big and small families often envy each other.

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**Who acts:** family set up, kids · **What happens:** have, envy · **To what, where:** good bits, each

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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 (family set up, kids), 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:34
# text = Every family set-up has good bits and hard bits; kids from big and small families often envy each other.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
5	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	envy	envy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	20	obj	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **have** | present | every family set up | good bits and hard bits |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |
| 2 | **envy** | present | kids from big families | each |  |  |  | often *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:34`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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