--- title: Mila gets a letter from her birth mum once a year, passed on through… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics description: Mila gets a letter from her birth mum once a year, passed on through the adoption agency; this is called letterbox contact. Who acts: Mila. A sentence of the lesson «Adoption» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Adoption](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/) / 10 # Adoption, sentence 10 Mila gets a letter from her birth mum once a year, passed on through the adoption agency; this is called letterbox contact. **Who acts:** Mila · **What happens:** get, pass on, call · **To what, where:** letter, adoption agency, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Mila), 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:10 # text = Mila gets a letter from her birth mum once a year, passed on through the adoption agency; this is called letterbox contact. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Mila Mila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 14 on on ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 adoption adoption NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 agency agency NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 23 letterbox letterbox NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Mila | a letter | | | | from Mila's birth mum; once *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from mum=Source | | 2 | **pass on** | participle | Mila *not said here* | | | the adoption agency | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:522-adoption.lesson:10`. **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/). - ← previous: [Adoption, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/9/) - next →: [Adoption, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/)