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title: On Mother's Day or Father's Day, it's fine to make a card for whoeve… — Mum on her own, Dad on his own · tree and pragmatics
description: On Mother's Day or Father's Day, it's fine to make a card for whoever looks after you. 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 37

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On Mother's Day or Father's Day, it's fine to make a card for whoever looks after you.

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**What happens:** be, make, look · **To what, where:** card

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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: 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:37
# text = On Mother's Day or Father's Day, it's fine to make a card for whoever looks after you.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	csubj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
19	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | on Mother's Day or Father's Day | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a card |  |  |  | for whoever | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent card=Product for whoever=Asset |
| 3 | **look** | present |  |  |  |  | after you |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.lesson:37`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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