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title: Asking for a deal, like checking homework only on Fridays, is a fair… — The only child: all the attention and wanting a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking for a deal, like checking homework only on Fridays, is a fair way to ask for more trust. Who acts: Asking. 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 35

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Asking for a deal, like checking homework only on Fridays, is a fair way to ask for more trust.

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**Who acts:** Asking · **What happens:** ask, check, be · **To what, where:** homework, fair way

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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 (Asking), 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:35
# text = Asking for a deal, like checking homework only on Fridays, is a fair way to ask for more trust.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis
8	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a deal | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **check** | gerund |  | homework |  |  | friday |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Asking | a fair way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for more trust | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:35`.

**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 ×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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