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title: Younger kids often get hand-me-downs, and these can be made your own. — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: Younger kids often get hand-me-downs, and these can be made your own. Who acts: Younger kids. A sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Big brothers, sentence 45

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Younger kids often get hand-me-downs, and these can be made your own.

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**Who acts:** Younger kids · **What happens:** get, make · **To what, where:** hand me downs, these

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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 (Younger kids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:501-big-brothers.lesson:45
# text = Younger kids often get hand-me-downs, and these can be made your own.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 501-big-brothers.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): no change
1	Younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	flat	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	downs	down	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **get** | present | Younger kids | hand me downs |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer down=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | can · passive |  | these |  |  |  | own *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:501-big-brothers.lesson:45`.

**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): no change. **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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