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title: Many teachers say «your grown-up at home» because families come in m… — Mum on her own, Dad on his own · tree and pragmatics
description: Many teachers say «your grown-up at home» because families come in many shapes. Who acts: Many teachers, families. A sentence of the lesson «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mum on her own, Dad on his own, sentence 33

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Many teachers say «your grown-up at home» because families come in many shapes.

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**Who acts:** Many teachers, families · **What happens:** say, grow up, come in · **To what, where:** grown home, many shapes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» 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 (Many teachers, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.lesson:33
# text = Many teachers say «your grown-up at home» because families come in many shapes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod:poss
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=6:compound
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Many teachers | grown home |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent home=Topic |
| 2 | **grow up** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come in** | present | families | many shapes |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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