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title: Disagreeing is normal; talking it through is how couples decide thin… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics
description: Disagreeing is normal; talking it through is how couples decide things together. Who acts: couples. A sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups who argue and make up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 11

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Disagreeing is normal; talking it through is how couples decide things together.

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**Who acts:** couples · **What happens:** disagree, be, talk through, decide · **To what, where:** patch, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups who argue and make up» of the adult life 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 (couples), 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:11
# text = Disagreeing is normal; talking it through is how couples decide things together.
# 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): no change
1	Disagreeing	disagree	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	couples	couple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disagree** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk through** | present · progressive |  | patch |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **decide** | present | couples | things |  |  |  | together *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |

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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:adult-life:014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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