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title: Getting close to a new step-parent takes time for everyone, so be po… — Grandparents, divorce and step-families · tree and pragmatics
description: Getting close to a new step-parent takes time for everyone, so be polite and patient. Who acts: Getting. A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents, divorce and step-families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 13

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Getting close to a new step-parent takes time for everyone, so be polite and patient.

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**Who acts:** Getting · **What happens:** get, take, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents, divorce and step-families» 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 (Getting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.lesson:13
# text = Getting close to a new step-parent takes time for everyone, so be polite and patient.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.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	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to a new step parent *result*; close *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to parent=Result |
| 2 | **take** | present | Getting |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.lesson:13`.

**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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