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title: Children don't have to carry the grown-ups' rows; cousins can be fri… — Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row no… · tree and pragmatics
description: Children don't have to carry the grown-ups' rows; cousins can be friends even if their parents aren't. Who acts: Children, cousins. A sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 34

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Children don't have to carry the grown-ups' rows; cousins can be friends even if their parents aren't.

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**Who acts:** Children, cousins · **What happens:** not have, carry, grow, be, not be · **To what, where:** rows, friends, parents

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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 (Children, cousins), 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:34
# text = Children don't have to carry the grown-ups' rows; cousins can be friends even if their parents aren't.
# 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 ×2
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:mark
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	advcl	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | Children |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* | grown ups's rows |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | can | cousins | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | cousins *not said here* | cousins's parents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:34`.

**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 ×2. **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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