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title: In Atlanta, Malachi's stepbrother Trey is the cool kid, and at schoo… — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics
description: In Atlanta, Malachi's stepbrother Trey is the cool kid, and at school Trey ignores him. Who acts: stepbrother, Trey. 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 20

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In Atlanta, Malachi's stepbrother Trey is the cool kid, and at school Trey ignores him.

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**Who acts:** stepbrother, Trey · **What happens:** be, ignore · **To what, where:** cool kid, Atlanta, school

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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, Trey), 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:20
# text = In Atlanta, Malachi's stepbrother Trey is the cool kid, and at school Trey ignores him.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Malachi	Malachi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	stepbrother	stepbrother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	Trey	Trey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound
16	Trey	Trey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	ignores	ignore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 a** | present | Malachi's stepbrother | the cool kid |  | Atlanta |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ignore** | present | Trey | school |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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:20`.

**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. **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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