--- title: Such family fights can last a long time and may involve lawyers, but… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: Such family fights can last a long time and may involve lawyers, but they often calm down in the end, and a child never has to take a side. Who acts: Such family fights, fights, child. A sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # What people leave behind, sentence 8 Such family fights can last a long time and may involve lawyers, but they often calm down in the end, and a child never has to take a side. **Who acts:** Such family fights, fights, child · **What happens:** last, involve, calm down, not have, take · **To what, where:** lawyers, end, side 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 (Such family fights, fights, child), 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:8 # text = Such family fights can last a long time and may involve lawyers, but they often calm down in the end, and a child never has to take a side. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 involve involve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 lawyers lawyer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 calm calm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 18 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **last** | can | Such family fights | | | | time | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **involve** | may | Such family fights *not said here* | lawyers | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawyer=Theme | | 3 | **calm down** | present | fights *= fight* | | | | in the end | often *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **have** | present | a child | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* | a side | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [What people leave behind, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/7/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)