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title: Parents may not realise that cheering or checking feels like pressur… — The only child: all the attention and wanting a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents may not realise that cheering or checking feels like pressure; telling them kindly usually helps. Who acts: Parents, telling. 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 pr
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# The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 34

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Parents may not realise that cheering or checking feels like pressure; telling them kindly usually helps.

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**Who acts:** Parents, telling · **What happens:** not realise, cheer, check, feel, tell, help · **To what, where:** parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Parents, telling), 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:34
# text = Parents may not realise that cheering or checking feels like pressure; telling them kindly usually helps.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	realise	realise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	cheering	cheer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	nsubj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **realise** | may | Parents |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cheer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like pressure | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like pressure=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | parents *= parent* |  |  | kindly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 6 | **help** | present | telling |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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: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): R5-strong ×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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