--- title: Many families tell children they are adopted from very early on, so… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics description: Many families tell children they are adopted from very early on, so it is never a shock; finding out late can be very hard. Who acts: Many families, child, finding. 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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 (Many families, child, finding), 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:41 # text = Many families tell children they are adopted from very early on, so it is never a shock; finding out late can be very hard. # 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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 iobj _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 11 on on ADV RB _ 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Many families | | children | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **adopt** | present · passive | | parents *= parent* | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | child | a shock | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **find out** | gerund | | | | | | late *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | can | finding | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | 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:41`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Adoption, 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/40/) - next →: [Adoption, 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/42/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/)