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title: The birth parents are the ones the child was born to; the adoptive p… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics
description: The birth parents are the ones the child was born to; the adoptive parents are the ones who bring the child up. Who acts: birth parents, ones, adoptive parents. A sentence of the lesson «Adoption» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Adoption, sentence 1

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The birth parents are the ones the child was born to; the adoptive parents are the ones who bring the child up.

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**Who acts:** birth parents, ones, adoptive parents · **What happens:** be, bear, bring up · **To what, where:** ones, child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adoption» 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 (birth parents, ones, adoptive parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:522-adoption.lesson:1
# text = The birth parents are the ones the child was born to; the adoptive parents are the ones who bring the child up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 522-adoption.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	adoptive	adoptive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 a** | present | the birth parents | the ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive | the ones *not said here* | the child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the adoptive parents | the ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring up** | present | the ones | the child |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

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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:522-adoption.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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