---
title: Moving to the other side of the world can make your own voice feel l… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moving to the other side of the world can make your own voice feel like a target: Holly's family moved from England to Australia, kids copied her accent with "Cup of tea, guv'nor?", and at night she thought: "Everyone laughs when I talk. Who acts: Moving, family, kids, Everyone. A sentence of the le
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/0/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Lonely and different: accents, big bro…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/) / 0

# Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 0

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Moving to the other side of the world can make your own voice feel like a target: Holly's family moved from England to Australia, kids copied her accent with "Cup of tea, guv'nor?", and at night she thought: "Everyone laughs when I talk.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Moving, family, kids, Everyone · **What happens:** move, make, copy, think, laugh, talk · **To what, where:** other side, voice feel, Australia, England, accent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» 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 (Moving, family, kids, Everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:0
# text = Moving to the other side of the world can make your own voice feel like a target: Holly's family moved from England to Australia, kids copied her accent with "Cup of tea, guv'nor?", and at night she thought: "Everyone laughs when I talk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	feel	feel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	target	target	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	Holly	Holly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	copied	copy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	guv'nor	guv'nor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
47	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
49	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	50	nsubj	_	_
50	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:parataxis
51	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  | the other side of the world |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | can | Moving | voice feel |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feel=Product |
| 3 | **move** | past | Holly's family |  | Australia | England |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from england=Initial\_Location to australia=Destination |
| 4 | **copy** | past | kids | family's accent |  |  |  | with Cup of tea | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | family |  |  |  | night |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **laugh** *in a quote* | present | Everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **talk** *in a quote* | present | family |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **accent** |  | family |  |  |  |  |  | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Left out: the party, the new school, t…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/21-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel/17/)
- next →: [Lonely and different: accents, big bro…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/1/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/)

