--- title: Now she's nine and asks, «What was my birth mum like?» They don't kn… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics description: Now she's nine and asks, «What was my birth mum like?» They don't know everything, but they show her a letter her birth mum wrote when Isla was a baby. Who acts: Isla, mum, birth mum. 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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 (Isla, mum, birth 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:9 # text = Now she's nine and asks, «What was my birth mum like?» They don't know everything, but they show her a letter her birth mum wrote when Isla was a baby. # 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 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 9 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 13 nmod _ _ 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 17 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 34 Isla Isla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Isla | nine | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | | my birth mum | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | mum | everything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | | 5 | **show** | present | mum | a letter | Isla | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient letter=Topic | | 6 | **write** | past | Isla's birth mum | a letter *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | past | Isla | a baby | | | | | 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:9`. **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. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/8/) - next →: [Adoption, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/)