--- title: Birth parents are the parents a child was born to; adoptive parents… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics description: Birth parents are the parents a child was born to; adoptive parents are the parents who bring the child up. Who acts: Birth parents, parents, 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 cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/38/) [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/) / 38 # Adoption, sentence 38 Birth parents are the parents a child was born to; adoptive parents are the parents who bring the child up. **Who acts:** Birth parents, parents, adoptive parents · **What happens:** be, bear, bring up · **To what, where:** parents, child 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, parents, 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:38 # text = Birth parents are the parents a child was born to; adoptive parents are the parents 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 adoptive adoptive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Birth parents | the parents | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** | past · passive | the parents *not said here* | a child | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | adoptive parents | the parents | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bring up** | present | the parents | the child | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient | 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:38`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Adoption, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/37/) - next →: [Adoption, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/39/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/)