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title: Step-siblings start out as strangers who suddenly share a home. — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics
description: Step-siblings start out as strangers who suddenly share a home. Who acts: Step siblings, strangers. 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 7

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Step-siblings start out as strangers who suddenly share a home.

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**Who acts:** Step siblings, strangers · **What happens:** start out, share · **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, strangers), 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:7
# text = Step-siblings start out as strangers who suddenly share a home.
# 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): R8-pos-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	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start out** | present | Step siblings |  |  |  |  | as strangers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **share** | present | strangers | a home |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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