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title: In Wellington, Mila's stepbrother teaches her to skateboard: «Sweet… — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics
description: In Wellington, Mila's stepbrother teaches her to skateboard: «Sweet as, ya got it!» («sweet as» = great). Who acts: stepbrother, 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.
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# Half- and step-siblings, sentence 15

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In Wellington, Mila's stepbrother teaches her to skateboard: «Sweet as, ya got it!» («sweet as» = great).

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**Who acts:** stepbrother, Sofia · **What happens:** teach, skateboard, get · **To what, where:** Sofia, Wellington, stepbrother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (stepbrother, 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:15
# text = In Wellington, Mila's stepbrother teaches her to skateboard: «Sweet as, ya got it!» («sweet as» = great).
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Mila	Mila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	stepbrother	stepbrother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	skateboard	skateboard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	ya	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	dep	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	dep	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Mila's stepbrother |  | Sofia | Wellington |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **skateboard** | to-infinitive | Mila's stepbrother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Sofia | stepbrother |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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:505-half-and-step-siblings.lesson:15`.

**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): 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/).

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