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title: She can ask gently, and she can keep loving him. — A sibling with a disability or illness, a siblin… · tree and pragmatics
description: She can ask gently, and she can keep loving him. Who acts: Tilly. A sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 26

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She can ask gently, and she can keep loving him.

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**Who acts:** Tilly · **What happens:** ask, keep, love · **To what, where:** sibling

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» 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 (Tilly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:26
# text = She can ask gently, and she can keep loving him.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.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	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	loving	love	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | Tilly |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | can | Tilly |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **love** | gerund | Tilly *not said here* | sibling |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:26`.

**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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