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title: She'd like to know him better, so she can ask to message or see him… — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics
description: She'd like to know him better, so she can ask to message or see him more. Who acts: sister. 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 32

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She'd like to know him better, so she can ask to message or see him more.

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**Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** like, know, ask, message, see · **To what, where:** dad

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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 (sister), 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:32
# text = She'd like to know him better, so she can ask to message or see him more.
# 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	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	message	message	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **like** | would | sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sister *not said here* | dad |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **message** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | sister *not said here* | dad |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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:32`.

**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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