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title: Seeing adoption or foster care as normal, or even cool, helps a frie… — Friends who get it · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing adoption or foster care as normal, or even cool, helps a friend. Who acts: Seeing. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who get it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friends who get it, sentence 49

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Seeing adoption or foster care as normal, or even cool, helps a friend.

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**Who acts:** Seeing · **What happens:** see, help · **To what, where:** adoption, friend

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who get it» 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 (Seeing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:49
# text = Seeing adoption or foster care as normal, or even cool, helps a friend.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 525-friends-who-get-it.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	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | adoption or foster care |  |  |  | as normal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer adoption=Stimulus as normal=Attribute |
| 2 | **help** | present | Seeing |  | a friend |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary |

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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:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:49`.

**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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