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title: Autism means a brain that works differently; too much noise or light… — A sibling with a disability or illness, a siblin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Autism means a brain that works differently; too much noise or light can cause a meltdown, which is not naughtiness. Who acts: Autism, brain, much noise, meltdown. 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 scho
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# A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 27

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Autism means a brain that works differently; too much noise or light can cause a meltdown, which is not naughtiness.

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**Who acts:** Autism, brain, much noise, meltdown · **What happens:** mean, work, cause, not be · **To what, where:** brain, meltdown, naughtiness

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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 (Autism, brain, much noise, meltdown), 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:27
# text = Autism means a brain that works differently; too much noise or light can cause a meltdown, which is not naughtiness.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Autism	autism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	meltdown	meltdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	naughtiness	naughtiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Autism | a brain |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Topic |
| 2 | **work** | present | a brain |  |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cause** | can | much noise or light | a meltdown |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition meltdown=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | a meltdown | naughtiness |  |  |  |  | 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:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:27`.

**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): R7-rel-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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