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title: Letterbox contact means letters between an adopted child's family an… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics
description: Letterbox contact means letters between an adopted child's family and the birth family, passed on through an agency. Who acts: Letterbox contact. 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 43

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Letterbox contact means letters between an adopted child's family and the birth family, passed on through an agency.

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**Who acts:** Letterbox contact · **What happens:** mean, adopt, pass on · **To what, where:** letters, agency

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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: who acts (Letterbox contact), 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:43
# text = Letterbox contact means letters between an adopted child's family and the birth family, passed on through an agency.
# 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	Letterbox	letterbox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	agency	agency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Letterbox contact | letters |  |  |  | between a adopted child's family and the birth family | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic |
| 2 | **adopt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass on** | participle |  | letters *not said here* |  | a agency |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:43`.

**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/).

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