--- title: Step-siblings start as strangers forced together; it takes time, and… — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics description: Step-siblings start as strangers forced together; it takes time, and a shared interest helps. Who acts: Step siblings, it, shared interest. 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/38/) [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/) / 38 # Half- and step-siblings, sentence 38 Step-siblings start as strangers forced together; it takes time, and a shared interest helps. **Who acts:** Step siblings, it, shared interest · **What happens:** start, force, take, share, help · **To what, where:** strangers 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 (Step siblings, it, shared interest), 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:38 # text = Step-siblings start as strangers forced together; it takes time, and a shared interest helps. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 siblings sibling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 16 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | Step siblings | | | | | as strangers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **force** | participle | | strangers *not said here* | | | | together *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | present | it | | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | present | a shared interest | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:38`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Half- and step-siblings, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/37/) - next →: [Half- and step-siblings, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/39/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/)