--- title: They're polite but awkward, until one says, «So, uh, you like Minecr… — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics description: They're polite but awkward, until one says, «So, uh, you like Minecraft, eh?» Sofia relaxes a bit. Who acts: girls, one, you, Sofia. A sentence of the lesson «Half- and step-siblings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Half- and step-siblings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/) / 14 # Half- and step-siblings, sentence 14 They're polite but awkward, until one says, «So, uh, you like Minecraft, eh?» Sofia relaxes a bit. **Who acts:** girls, one, you, Sofia · **What happens:** be, say, like, relax · **To what, where:** Minecraft, bit · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Half- and step-siblings» 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 (girls, one, you, Sofia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:505-half-and-step-siblings.lesson:14 # text = They're polite but awkward, until one says, «So, uh, you like Minecraft, eh?» Sofia relaxes a bit. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 505-half-and-step-siblings.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 awkward awkward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 until until SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 one one PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 12 So so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 uh uh INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 18 Minecraft Minecraft PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 20 eh eh INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 23 Sofia Sofia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 relaxes relax VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | girls *= girl* | | | | | polite *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | girls *= girl* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | one | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you | Minecraft | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot minecraft=Theme | | 5 | **relax** | present | Sofia | a bit | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:505-half-and-step-siblings.lesson:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Half- and step-siblings, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/13/) - next →: [Half- and step-siblings, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/)