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title: In many cultures, including Māori, extended families are huge and cl… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics
description: In many cultures, including Māori, extended families are huge and close; «whānau» means extended family and «kia ora» means hello. Who acts: extended families, whānau, kia. A sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 32

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In many cultures, including Māori, extended families are huge and close; «whānau» means extended family and «kia ora» means hello.

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**Who acts:** extended families, whānau, kia · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** many cultures, extended family

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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 (extended families, whānau, kia), 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:32
# text = In many cultures, including Māori, extended families are huge and close; «whānau» means extended family and «kia ora» means hello.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
5	including	include	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	whānau	whānau	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	nsubj	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl
19	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	kia	Kia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	ora	ora	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | extended families |  |  | many cultures include Māori |  | huge *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | extended families *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | whānau | extended family |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | kia |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |

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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:32`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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