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title: Step-siblings at the same school may act differently there than at h… — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics
description: Step-siblings at the same school may act differently there than at home; talking at home helps. Who acts: Step siblings, talking. 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 41

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Step-siblings at the same school may act differently there than at home; talking at home helps.

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**Who acts:** Step siblings, talking · **What happens:** act, talk, help · **To what, where:** home

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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 (Step siblings, talking), 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:41
# text = Step-siblings at the same school may act differently there than at home; talking at home 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	siblings	sibling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
16	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **act** | may | Step siblings at the same school |  |  | there |  | than home | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  | home |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | present | talking |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:41`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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