--- title: A «black sheep» is the family member who doesn't fit the family's id… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics description: A «black sheep» is the family member who doesn't fit the family's idea of itself; being different is not being wrong. Who acts: black sheep, family member. 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 sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The favourite, the black sheep, coveri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs/) / 30 # The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 30 A «black sheep» is the family member who doesn't fit the family's idea of itself; being different is not being wrong. **Who acts:** black sheep, family member · **What happens:** be, not fit, not be · **To what, where:** family member, idea 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 (black sheep, family member), 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:30 # text = A «black sheep» is the family member who doesn't fit the family's idea of itself; being different is not being wrong. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 11 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ _ 22 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 csubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 cop _ _ 26 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 27 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a black sheep | the family member | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **fit** | present · do-support | the family member | the family's idea of sheep | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:30`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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