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title: In Cork, Bridie's family is so big they can't fit in one car, so the… — Twins and big families · tree and pragmatics
description: In Cork, Bridie's family is so big they can't fit in one car, so they drive in two cars to Gran's. Who acts: family, kids. A sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Twins and big families, sentence 32

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In Cork, Bridie's family is so big they can't fit in one car, so they drive in two cars to Gran's.

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**Who acts:** family, kids · **What happens:** be, not fit, drive · **To what, where:** Cork, one car, Gran, two cars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» 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, kids), 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:32
# text = In Cork, Bridie's family is so big they can't fit in one car, so they drive in two cars to Gran's.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cork	Cork	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Bridie	bridie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | Bridie's family |  |  | Cork |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fit** | can | kids *= kid* |  |  | one car |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in car=Trajectory |
| 3 | **drive** | present | kids *= kid* |  | Gran | two cars |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to gran=Trajectory |

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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:503-twins-and-big-families.lesson:32`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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