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title: Being involved makes a big brother or sister proud. — A new baby · tree and pragmatics
description: Being involved makes a big brother or sister proud. A sentence of the lesson «A new baby» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A new baby, sentence 37

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Being involved makes a big brother or sister proud.

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**What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** big brother

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:504-a-new-baby.lesson:37
# text = Being involved makes a big brother or sister proud.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 504-a-new-baby.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	csubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | involved *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | a big brother or sister |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brother=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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:37`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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