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title: "We don't talk to that side of the family" means there was a falling… — Gran, cousins and the whole wide family · tree and pragmatics
description: "We don't talk to that side of the family" means there was a falling-out, a feud, and some relatives stopped speaking. Who acts: We, falling out, relatives. A sentence of the lesson «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 10

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"We don't talk to that side of the family" means there was a falling-out, a feud, and some relatives stopped speaking.

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**Who acts:** We, falling out, relatives · **What happens:** not talk, mean, be, stop, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» 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 (We, falling out, relatives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.lesson:10
# text = "We don't talk to that side of the family" means there was a falling-out, a feud, and some relatives stopped speaking.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 017-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	falling	falling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	feud	feud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **not** **talk** *in a quote* | present · do-support | We |  |  |  |  | to that side of the family | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to side=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | past | a falling out and a feud |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | past | some relatives |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | some relatives *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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