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title: A child who visits a parent's home can feel like a guest; having a s… — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics
description: A child who visits a parent's home can feel like a guest; having a space of their own, even a drawer, can help. Who acts: child, having. 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 42

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A child who visits a parent's home can feel like a guest; having a space of their own, even a drawer, can help.

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**Who acts:** child, having · **What happens:** visit, feel, have, help · **To what, where:** home, space

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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 (child, having), 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:42
# text = A child who visits a parent's home can feel like a guest; having a space of their own, even a drawer, can help.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	visits	visit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **visit** | present | a child | a parent's home |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | can | a child |  |  |  |  | like a guest | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like guest=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  | a space of siblings's own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient |
| 4 | **help** | can | having |  |  |  |  |  | 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:42`.

**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 ×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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