--- title: Only children may get more presents but have no brother or sister to… — The only child: all the attention and wanting a… · tree and pragmatics description: Only children may get more presents but have no brother or sister to share the day with; inviting cousins or friends helps. Who acts: children, inviting. 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 depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The only child: all the attention and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling/) / 39 # The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 39 Only children may get more presents but have no brother or sister to share the day with; inviting cousins or friends helps. **Who acts:** children, inviting · **What happens:** get, have, share, invite, help · **To what, where:** more presents, brother, cousins 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 (children, inviting), 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:39 # text = Only children may get more presents but have no brother or sister to share the day with; inviting cousins or friends 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 19 inviting invite VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 20 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | may | children | more presents | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | present | children *not said here* | no brother or sister | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | | 3 | **share** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | day | | tree rules | | 4 | **invite** | gerund | | cousins or friends | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Recipient | | 5 | **help** | present | inviting | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:39`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. 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