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title: Brothers and sisters are sometimes adopted together so they can stay… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics
description: Brothers and sisters are sometimes adopted together so they can stay together. Who acts: brother. 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 46

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Brothers and sisters are sometimes adopted together so they can stay together.

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**Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** adopt, stay together · **To what, where:** Brothers

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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 (brother), 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:46
# text = Brothers and sisters are sometimes adopted together so they can stay together.
# 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	Brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **adopt** | present · passive |  | Brothers and sisters |  |  |  | sometimes, together *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **stay together** | can | brother |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:46`.

**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/).

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