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title: It is normal to love company and then want quiet; a family with one… — The only child: all the attention and wanting a… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is normal to love company and then want quiet; a family with one child is a complete family. Who acts: family. 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 43

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It is normal to love company and then want quiet; a family with one child is a complete family.

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**Who acts:** family · **What happens:** be, love, want · **To what, where:** company, complete family

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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 (family), 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:43
# text = It is normal to love company and then want quiet; a family with one child is a complete family.
# 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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | to-infinitive |  | company |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus |
| 3 | **want** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | quiet *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a family with one child | a complete family |  |  |  |  | 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:43`.

**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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