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title: Coming home with flowers the day after a row is making up, a way of… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics
description: Coming home with flowers the day after a row is making up, a way of saying sorry and wanting to be friends again. Who acts: Coming, way. 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 c
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# Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 9

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Coming home with flowers the day after a row is making up, a way of saying sorry and wanting to be friends again.

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**Who acts:** Coming, way · **What happens:** come, make up, say, want, be · **To what, where:** friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Coming, way), 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:9
# text = Coming home with flowers the day after a row is making up, a way of saying sorry and wanting to be friends again.
# 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	Coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	xcomp	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day | with flowers; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make up** | present · progressive | Coming |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: apologize* | gerund | a way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** | gerund | a way *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a way *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): 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.

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