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title: In many cultures big, close families are normal, and the trick is to… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics
description: In many cultures big, close families are normal, and the trick is to say hi and ask names. Who acts: close families, trick. A sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 18

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In many cultures big, close families are normal, and the trick is to say hi and ask names.

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**Who acts:** close families, trick · **What happens:** be, ask · **To what, where:** many cultures, names

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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 (close families, trick), 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:18
# text = In many cultures big, close families are normal, and the trick is to say hi and ask names.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | close families |  |  | many cultures |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the trick |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the trick *not said here* | names |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |

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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:18`.

**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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