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title: Some families have one child because they choose to, for money, time… — The only child: all the attention and wanting a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some families have one child because they choose to, for money, time, health or just because. Who acts: families. 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 7

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Some families have one child because they choose to, for money, time, health or just because.

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**Who acts:** families · **What happens:** have, choose · **To what, where:** one child

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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 (families), 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:7
# text = Some families have one child because they choose to, for money, time, health or just because.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | some families | one child |  |  |  | for money and time and health | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **choose** | present | families *= family* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:7`.

**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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