--- title: Big families are loud; kids find clever ways to get quiet, and it's… — Twins and big families · tree and pragmatics description: Big families are loud; kids find clever ways to get quiet, and it's fine to tell your family that a corner is your quiet place. Who acts: Big families, kids, corner. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big families, kids, corner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families.lesson:31 # text = Big families are loud; kids find clever ways to get quiet, and it's fine to tell your family that a corner is your quiet place. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 503-twins-and-big-families.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 16 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Big families | | | | | loud *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | present | kids | clever ways | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | kids *not said here* | clever ways *not said here* | | | | quiet *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | kids *not said here* | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | your family | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** | present | a corner | your quiet place | | | | | tree rules | 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:503-twins-and-big-families.lesson:31`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Twins and big families, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/503-twins-and-big-families/30/) - next →: [Twins and big families, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/503-twins-and-big-families/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/503-twins-and-big-families/)