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title: What she came to understand: moving countries is hard for anyone, ho… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What she came to understand: moving countries is hard for anyone, homesickness is the ache for the place and people you left, and teasing about accents is often curiosity done badly; accents fade or become something people like. Who acts: girl, moving, homesickness, you. A sentence of the lesson «Lo
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# Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 4

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What she came to understand: moving countries is hard for anyone, homesickness is the ache for the place and people you left, and teasing about accents is often curiosity done badly; accents fade or become something people like.

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**Who acts:** girl, moving, homesickness, you, teasing, accents · **What happens:** come, understand, move, be, leave, tease · **To what, where:** countries, ache, people, curiosity, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl, moving, homesickness, you), 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:4
# text = What she came to understand: moving countries is hard for anyone, homesickness is the ache for the place and people you left, and teasing about accents is often curiosity done badly; accents fade or become something people like.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
8	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	homesickness	homesickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ache	ache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:nsubj
37	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
40	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	39	obj	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **move** | gerund |  | countries |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | moving |  |  |  |  | for anyone; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | homesickness | the ache |  |  |  | for the place and people | tree rules |
| 6 | **leave** | past | you | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 7 | **tease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about accents | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | present | teasing | curiosity |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **do** | participle |  | curiosity *not said here* |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **fade** | present | accents |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 11 | **become** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient something=Result |
| 12 | **like** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:4`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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