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title: Families differ: some children have two mums or two dads, and that i… — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: Families differ: some children have two mums or two dads, and that is normal. Who acts: Families, children, that. A sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Manners and kindness, sentence 21

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Families differ: some children have two mums or two dads, and that is normal.

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**Who acts:** Families, children, that · **What happens:** differ, have, be · **To what, where:** two mums

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (Families, children, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:21
# text = Families differ: some children have two mums or two dads, and that is normal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 051-manners-and-kindness.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	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	mums	mum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	dads	dad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **differ** | present | Families |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | some children | two mums or two dads |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | normal *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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:21`.

**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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