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title: One twin speaking for the other too much can leave the quiet one fee… — Twins and big families · tree and pragmatics
description: One twin speaking for the other too much can leave the quiet one feeling invisible. Who acts: One twin, quiet one. 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 39

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One twin speaking for the other too much can leave the quiet one feeling invisible.

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**Who acts:** One twin, quiet one · **What happens:** speak, leave, feel · **To what, where:** quiet one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One twin, quiet one), 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:39
# text = One twin speaking for the other too much can leave the quiet one feeling invisible.
# 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
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
15	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | One twin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the other | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | can | One twin | the quiet one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | gerund | the quiet one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:39`.

**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. **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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