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title: A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreeme… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics
description: A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back. Who acts: parent. 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 
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# Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 12

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A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back.

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**Who acts:** parent · **What happens:** sleep, mean, snore · **To what, where:** sofa, disagreement

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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 (parent), 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:12
# text = A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	conj	_	_
18	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
20	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **sleep** | gerund | a parent *not said here* |  |  | the sofa | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | may | a parent | a disagreement |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disagreement=Topic |
| 3 | **snore** | gerund | a parent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:12`.

**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, R7-rel-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/).

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