--- title: Saying no to things that feel wrong is right, even when it's family. — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics description: Saying no to things that feel wrong is right, even when it's family. Who acts: things, Saying, thing. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/24/) [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/) / [Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/) / 24 # Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 24 Saying no to things that feel wrong is right, even when it's family. **Who acts:** things, Saying, thing · **What happens:** say, feel, be · **To what, where:** no, things, family · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (things, Saying, thing), 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:24 # text = Saying no to things that feel wrong is right, even when it's family. # 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 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 1 obj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | no | things | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to thing=Recipient | | 2 | **feel** | present | things | | | | | wrong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | Saying | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | thing | family | | | | | 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:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:24`. **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/). - ← previous: [Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far a…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/23/) - next →: [Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far a…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/)