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title: Family feuds often start over money, a will or hurtful words, and th… — Gran, cousins and the whole wide family · tree and pragmatics
description: Family feuds often start over money, a will or hurtful words, and they can last for years. Who acts: Family feuds, 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 and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Gran, cousins and the whole wide family, sentence 11

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Family feuds often start over money, a will or hurtful words, and they can last for years.

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**Who acts:** Family feuds, relatives · **What happens:** start, last · **To what, where:** money

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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 (Family feuds, 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:11
# text = Family feuds often start over money, a will or hurtful words, and they can last for years.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	feuds	feud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	will	will	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **start** | present | Family feuds |  |  | money and a will or hurtful words |  | often *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **last** | can | relatives *= relative* |  |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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): R3-conj-first ×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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