--- title: Sam-Jo and his big sister Ruby were adopted together, so they never… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics description: Sam-Jo and his big sister Ruby were adopted together, so they never had to be apart; they're close, and they fight over the remote like any other brother and sister. Who acts: Sam. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sam), 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:29 # text = Sam-Jo and his big sister Ruby were adopted together, so they never had to be apart; they're close, and they fight over the remote like any other brother and sister. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Jo Jo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 8 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 together together ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 apart apart ADV RB _ 16 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 28 over over ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 remote remote ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **adopt** | past · passive | | Sam and England's big sister | | | | together *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **not** **have** | past | Sam | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Sam *not said here* | | | | | apart *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | Sam | | | | | close *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fight** | present | Sam | | | | | like any other brother and sister; over the remote | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over remote=Theme | 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:29`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Adoption, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/28/) - next →: [Adoption, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/)