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title: A person born in a country belongs there, and a family story from an… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics
description: A person born in a country belongs there, and a family story from another place is something to be proud of, not hidden. Who acts: person, family story. A sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 10

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A person born in a country belongs there, and a family story from another place is something to be proud of, not hidden.

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**Who acts:** person, family story · **What happens:** bear, belong, be, not hide · **To what, where:** person, country, something

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» of the reflection 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 (person, family story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:10
# text = A person born in a country belongs there, and a family story from another place is something to be proud of, not hidden.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | a person *not said here* |  | a country |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **belong** | present | a person |  |  | there |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a family story from another place | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **hide** | participle | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:reflection:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:10`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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