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title: Some families celebrate the day an adoption became official, sometim… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics
description: Some families celebrate the day an adoption became official, sometimes called «Gotcha day» or «family day». Who acts: families, adoption. 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 47

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Some families celebrate the day an adoption became official, sometimes called «Gotcha day» or «family day».

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**Who acts:** families, adoption · **What happens:** celebrate, become, call · **To what, where:** day, Gotcha day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (families, adoption), 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:47
# text = Some families celebrate the day an adoption became official, sometimes called «Gotcha day» or «family day».
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Gotcha	Gotcha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **celebrate** | present | some families |  |  |  | day |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past | a adoption | the day *not said here* |  |  |  | official *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient day=Result |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a adoption *not said here* | Gotcha day or family day |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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:47`.

**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, 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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