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title: That often passes; meanwhile Becca can give her space and find her o… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics
description: That often passes; meanwhile Becca can give her space and find her own friends. Who acts: That, Becca. A sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 28

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That often passes; meanwhile Becca can give her space and find her own friends.

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**Who acts:** That, Becca · **What happens:** pass, give, find · **To what, where:** space, sister, own friends

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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, Becca), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:28
# text = That often passes; meanwhile Becca can give her space and find her own friends.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	Becca	Becca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **pass** | present | That |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | can | Becca | space | sister |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient space=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive | Becca *not said here* | Becca's own friends |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |

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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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:28`.

**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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