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title: Theo's sister Priya was adopted too, from a different birth family. — Adoption · tree and pragmatics
description: Theo's sister Priya was adopted too, from a different birth family. 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.
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# Adoption, sentence 30

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Theo's sister Priya was adopted too, from a different birth family.

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**What happens:** adopt · **To what, where:** sister, different birth family

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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: 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:30
# text = Theo's sister Priya was adopted too, from a different birth family.
# 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): no change
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Priya	Priya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	.	.	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 | **adopt** | past · passive |  | Theo's sister |  | a different birth family |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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): no change. **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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