--- title: Isla always knew she was adopted; her mum and dad told her when she… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics description: Isla always knew she was adopted; her mum and dad told her when she was tiny, with a picture book about a family. Who acts: Isla, mum. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/8/) [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/) / 8 # Adoption, sentence 8 Isla always knew she was adopted; her mum and dad told her when she was tiny, with a picture book about a family. **Who acts:** Isla, mum · **What happens:** know, adopt, tell, be · **To what, where:** Isla · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Isla, mum), 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:8 # text = Isla always knew she was adopted; her mum and dad told her when she was tiny, with a picture book about a family. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Isla Isla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 11 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | Isla | | | | | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **adopt** | past · passive | | Isla | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Isla's mum and dad | | Isla | | | with a picture book about a family | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | past | Isla | | | | | tiny *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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/7/) - next →: [Adoption, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/)