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title: «That's a big family!» says his teacher. — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics
description: «That's a big family!» says his teacher. Who acts: That, teacher. 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 5

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«That's a big family!» says his teacher.

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**Who acts:** That, teacher · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** big family · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, teacher), 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:5
# text = «That's a big family!» says his teacher.
# 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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=excl, act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | a big family |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Jack's teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:5`.

**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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