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title: Having a lot is not the same as being spoilt; being kind and sharing… — The only child: all the attention and wanting a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Having a lot is not the same as being spoilt; being kind and sharing is what matters. Who acts: Having. 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 clause.
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# The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 40

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Having a lot is not the same as being spoilt; being kind and sharing is what matters.

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**Who acts:** Having · **What happens:** have, not be, spoil, be, share · **To what, where:** lot

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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 (Having), 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:40
# text = Having a lot is not the same as being spoilt; being kind and sharing is what matters.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	spoilt	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
18	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **have** | gerund |  | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | Having |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **spoil** | gerund · passive | Having *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V» |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **share** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | matter *property* | 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:40`.

**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, R8-pos-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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