--- title: Step-families and blended families take time to work out; being poli… — Grandparents, divorce and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: Step-families and blended families take time to work out; being polite and giving each other time and space helps, and if you are adopted or fostered, your story is yours to share or keep. Who acts: Step families, story. 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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 (Step families, story), 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:3 # text = Step-families and blended families take time to work out; being polite and giving each other time and space helps, and if you are adopted or fostered, your story is yours to share or keep. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 blended blend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 7 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 cop _ _ 14 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 csubj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 advcl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 fostered foster VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:xcomp 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blend** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **take** | present | Step families and blended families | | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **work out** | to-infinitive | Step families and blended families *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | polite *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | gerund | | | | | time | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **help** | present | Step families and blended families *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **adopt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **foster** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **is a** | present | your story | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **share** | to-infinitive | your story *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **keep** | infinitive | your story *not said here* | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.lesson:3`. **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): 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: [Grandparents, divorce and step-families, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/2/) - next →: [Grandparents, divorce and step-families, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/)