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title: In Auckland, Mihi's whānau (Māori for extended family) is huge: at a… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics
description: In Auckland, Mihi's whānau (Māori for extended family) is huge: at a family gathering there are 60 cousins and she doesn't know half of them. Who acts: 60 cousins, family. A sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 16

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In Auckland, Mihi's whānau (Māori for extended family) is huge: at a family gathering there are 60 cousins and she doesn't know half of them.

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**Who acts:** 60 cousins, family · **What happens:** be, gather, not know · **To what, where:** Auckland, half

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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 (60 cousins, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:16
# text = In Auckland, Mihi's whānau (Māori for extended family) is huge: at a family gathering there are 60 cousins and she doesn't know half of them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Mihi	Mihi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	whānau	whānau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
18	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl
19	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  | Auckland |  | huge *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **does** | present | 60 cousins |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | family | half of cousins |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus |

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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:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:16`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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