--- title: Arguing over paint colours like "Magnolia" or "Duck Egg Blue" is a s… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: Arguing over paint colours like "Magnolia" or "Duck Egg Blue" is a small disagreement about taste, not a real fight, and it ends with a choice or a compromise. Who acts: Arguing, first. 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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 (Arguing, first), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:011-when-things-break.lesson:14 # text = Arguing over paint colours like "Magnolia" or "Duck Egg Blue" is a small disagreement about taste, not a real fight, and it ends with a choice or a compromise. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 011-when-things-break.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Arguing argue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 csubj _ _ 2 over over ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Magnolia Magnolia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Duck Duck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 Egg Egg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 Blue Blue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 disagreement disagreement NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 compromise compromise NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | | | | | | over paint colours like Magnolia or Duck | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over colour=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Arguing | a small disagreement and a real fight | | | | about taste | tree rules | | 3 | **end** | present | first | | | | | with a choice or a compromise | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with choice=Subeventuality | 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:adult-life:011-when-things-break.lesson:14`. **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): R6-punct-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: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/13/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)