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title: Change feels strange at first but soon becomes normal, and routines… — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: Change feels strange at first but soon becomes normal, and routines help you feel steady. Who acts: Change, routines, you. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 9

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Change feels strange at first but soon becomes normal, and routines help you feel steady.

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**Who acts:** Change, routines, you · **What happens:** feel, become, help · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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 (Change, routines, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:9
# text = Change feels strange at first but soon becomes normal, and routines help you feel steady.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 097-moving-change-and-grief.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	Change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	obl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	routines	routine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **feel** | present | Change |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | present | Change *not said here* |  |  |  |  | normal, soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **help** | present | routines | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | steady *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:097-moving-change-and-grief.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): 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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