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title: People who stare at a disabled child usually just don't understand;… — A sibling with a disability or illness, a siblin… · tree and pragmatics
description: People who stare at a disabled child usually just don't understand; a short calm answer is enough. Who acts: People, short calm answer. 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 
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# A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 29

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People who stare at a disabled child usually just don't understand; a short calm answer is enough.

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**Who acts:** People, short calm answer · **What happens:** stare, not understand, be

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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 (People, short calm answer), 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:29
# text = People who stare at a disabled child usually just don't understand; a short calm answer is enough.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stare	stare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	disabled	disabled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **stare** | present | People |  |  |  |  | at a disabled child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at child=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | People |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | a short calm answer |  |  |  |  | enough *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:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:29`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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