--- title: Most arguments end, people say sorry in words or with a kind gesture… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics description: Most arguments end, people say sorry in words or with a kind gesture, and life goes back to normal; when things stay hard for a while, couples may get help from a counsellor. Who acts: Most arguments, people, life, things. 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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 (Most arguments, people, life, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.lesson:1 # text = Most arguments end, people say sorry in words or with a kind gesture, and life goes back to normal; when things stay hard for a while, couples may get help from a counsellor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 arguments argument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 gesture gesture NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 26 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 couples couple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 34 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **end** | present | Most arguments | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | sorry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | | 3 | **go back** | present | life | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **stay** | present | things | | | | while | hard *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **get** | may | couples | help | | a counsellor | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent help=Theme from counsellor=Source | 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:014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, 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: [Grown-ups who argue and make up, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/0/) - next →: [Grown-ups who argue and make up, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/)