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title: It's okay that he asked; it is private and sad for his parents, and… — The only child: all the attention and wanting a… · tree and pragmatics
description: It's okay that he asked; it is private and sad for his parents, and it is not his fault. Who acts: Teodor, chick. A sentence of the lesson «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 12

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It's okay that he asked; it is private and sad for his parents, and it is not his fault.

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**Who acts:** Teodor, chick · **What happens:** be, ask, not be · **To what, where:** fault

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» 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 (Teodor, chick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.lesson:12
# text = It's okay that he asked; it is private and sad for his parents, and it is not his fault.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Teodor |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | chick |  |  |  |  | for Teodor's parents; private *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | chick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | chick | Teodor's fault |  |  |  |  | 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:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.lesson:12`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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