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title: Cousins abroad can stay close through calls and messages, and each c… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics
description: Cousins abroad can stay close through calls and messages, and each can teach the other words. Who acts: Cousins, each. 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 29

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Cousins abroad can stay close through calls and messages, and each can teach the other words.

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**Who acts:** Cousins, each · **What happens:** stay, teach · **To what, where:** other words

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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 (Cousins, each), 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:29
# text = Cousins abroad can stay close through calls and messages, and each can teach the other words.
# 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	Cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **stay** | can | Cousins |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | can | each | the other words |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=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:29`.

**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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