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title: An anniversary is the yearly date of when a couple married or got to… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics
description: An anniversary is the yearly date of when a couple married or got together, so a "15th Anniversary" card means fifteen years. Who acts: anniversary, couple, Anniversary card. A sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups who argue and make up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 4

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An anniversary is the yearly date of when a couple married or got together, so a "15th Anniversary" card means fifteen years.

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**Who acts:** anniversary, couple, Anniversary card · **What happens:** be, marry, get together, mean · **To what, where:** yearly date

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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 (anniversary, couple, Anniversary card), 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:4
# text = An anniversary is the yearly date of when a couple married or got together, so a "15th Anniversary" card means fifteen years.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	15th	15th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	20	compound	_	_
20	Anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | a anniversary | the yearly date |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** | past | a couple |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **get together** | past | a couple *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a Anniversary card |  |  |  | year |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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**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): 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.

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