--- title: Families sometimes argue over who gets what after a death, especiall… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: Families sometimes argue over who gets what after a death, especially a house, because grief makes people touchy and old quarrels come back. Who acts: Families, grief, old quarrels. A sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [What people leave behind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/) / 7 # What people leave behind, sentence 7 Families sometimes argue over who gets what after a death, especially a house, because grief makes people touchy and old quarrels come back. **Who acts:** Families, grief, old quarrels · **What happens:** argue, get, make, come back · **To what, where:** people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» 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 (Families, grief, old quarrels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:7 # text = Families sometimes argue over who gets what after a death, especially a house, because grief makes people touchy and old quarrels come back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 026-what-people-leave-behind.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 ×2 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 over over SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 especially especially ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 touchy touchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:xcomp 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj 23 quarrels quarrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Families | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** | present | | | | | after a death | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | present | grief | people | | | | touchy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | | 4 | **come back** | present | old quarrels | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:7`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What people leave behind, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/6/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)