--- title: Big family events can mean lots of hugs, cheek-pinching and attentio… — Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row no… · tree and pragmatics description: Big family events can mean lots of hugs, cheek-pinching and attention; it is usually love, and you can still say politely if you don't like being touched. Who acts: Big family events, attention, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big family events, attention, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:29 # text = Big family events can mean lots of hugs, cheek-pinching and attention; it is usually love, and you can still say politely if you don't like being touched. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.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 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 hugs hug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 pinching pinching NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 usually usually ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 26 politely politely ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 32 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | can | Big family events | lots of hugs and cheek pinching and attention | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | attention | love | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you | | | | still | politely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **touch** *not said to happen* | gerund · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V» | 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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.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): R5-strong ×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. 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