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title: Half-siblings can be close or barely know each other. — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics
description: Half-siblings can be close or barely know each other. Who acts: Half siblings. 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 26

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Half-siblings can be close or barely know each other.

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**Who acts:** Half siblings · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** each

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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 (Half siblings), 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:26
# text = Half-siblings can be close or barely know each other.
# 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): no change
1	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	siblings	sibling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	9	obj	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | can | Half siblings |  |  |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | Half siblings *not said here* | each |  |  |  | barely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=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:26`.

**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): no change. **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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